Joseph Heston is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His early work at Notre Dame centered on the design of the Mach 10 Quiet Tunnel; his doctoral research involved dynamic force reconstruction techniques for hypersonic ground-test facilities via the stress-wave force balance technique. His present research interests include machine-learning for inverse problems, hypersonic ground-testing and evaluation, and hydrodynamic stability/transition to turbulence in hypersonic flows (linear stability theory, energy method, and energy gradient theory).
Dr. Heston graduated cum laude from Gonzaga University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering with minors in applied mathematics, mathematics, and physics. In 2024, he received a Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Notre Dame in recognition of his work on deconvolution for the stress-wave force balance.
Recent publications can be found at my ResearchGate.
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2026
M.S., University of Notre Dame, 2024
B.S., Gonzaga University, 2020
Research Interests
- Mach 10 Quiet Tunnel
- Dynamic Force Reconstruction
- Discrete Inverse Problems
- Waves in Viscoelastic Solids
- Hypersonic Stability Theory
- Jet in Hypersonic Crossflow
- Applications of Fractional Calculus
- Engineering Ethics
Professional Membership
- Sorin Fellow, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (dCEC)
- Student Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Student Member, American Physical Society (APS)
- Member, University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH)
- Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Member, International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry (ISME)