Ral Bielawski is an assistant professor at the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Dalhousie University and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan exploring scramjets, detonation engines and multiphase detonations. At UCF, Bielawski leverages high-performance computing to explore next generation propulsion systems for high speed vehicles.  He focuses particularly on the use of detonations to achieve hypersonic propulsions and understanding multiphase detonations.

• Propulsion
• Detonations
• Scramjets
• Multiphase flows
• Computational fluid dynamics

• Abisleiman, S., Sharma, V., Bielawski, R., Raman, V., Structure of Three-dimensional Conical Oblique Detonation Waves, Computers & Fluids, 2025
• Prakash, S., Bielawski, R.,, Raman, V., Ahmed, K., Bennewitz, J., ”Three-dimensional Numerical Simulations of a Liquid RP-2/O2 based Rotating Detonation Engine”, Combustion and Flame 259, 2024
• Bielawski, R.,, Barwey, R., Prakash, S., Raman, V., ”Highly-scalable GPU-accelerated compressible reacting flow solver for modeling high-speed flows”, Computers & Fluids, 2023

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