Associate Professor Director of the UVA Aerospace Research Laboratory
Bio
B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, 1991Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Queensland, 1999
"Oh, that view is tremendous"
John Glenn aboard spacecraft Friendship 7, Feb. 20, 1962.
Professor Goyne obtained a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1991 and 1999, respectively. During his Ph.D. research, Goyne specialized in high-speed aerodynamics, high-speed air-breathing propulsion and instrumentation development. Upon completion of his graduate studies, Goyne joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia as a Research Associate. Here he conducted research in hypersonic propulsion using the University of Virginia’s unique Supersonic Combustion Facility. This work was funded by NASA’s Hyper-X Program. He briefly returned to the University of Queensland to participate in the HyShot scramjet flight test program before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia. Now an Associate Professor and Director of the Aerospace Research Laboratory, he continues his work in hypersonic air-breathing propulsion, supersonic aerodynamics, hypersonic ground and flight test techniques, diagnostic and measurement technique development, controls and advanced manufacturing. Goyne also conducts research on the interaction of fluids with rotating machinery in collaboration with the Rotating Machinery and Controls (ROMAC) Industrial Program at the University of Virginia.
Goyne is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and within this organization is past Chair of the Hypersonic Technology and Aerospace Planes Program Committee. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Shock Waves journal. Goyne has lead roles within the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics. As part of this organization, he is the International Teaming lead on the Research Engagement Committee and is the Technical Area Collaboration Co-Lead for air-breathing propulsion. Goyne also serves on the Governor of Virginia's Aerospace Advisory Council and is Chair of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium Advisory Council. He has reviewed manuscripts for the AIAA Journal, the Journal of Propulsion and Power, the Journal of Aircraft, Experiments in Fluids and the Journal of Aerospace Engineering, as well as for AIAA professional conferences. He has chaired various sessions at international aerospace conferences and participated in invited panels and lectures. Goyne is currently the Faculty Advisor for the University of Virginia student chapters of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Sigma Gama Tau.
Awards
Virginia Govenor's Appointment to the Aerospace Advisory Council (current)2019
Faculty Fellow, Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow Program, Air Force Office of Scientific Research2012
Chair of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium Advisory Council (current)2011
Best Paper Award, Aerodynamic Measurement Technology, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics2010
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics2009
Chair, AIAA Hypersonic Technologies and Aerospace Planes (HyTASP) Program Committee2008-2011
Sigma Gamma Tau Outstanding Aerospace Professor Award, Sigma Gamma Tau, University of Virginia2006
University of Queensland Australian Postgraduate Research Award 1992
University of Queensland James Dowrie Academic Prize1990
Research Interests
Hypersonics
Scramjets
Instrumentation and laser diagnostics
Wind tunnel testing
Flight testing
Controls
Advanced manufacturing
Rotating machinery
Compared to a rocket-powered vehicle like the Space Shuttle, scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) powered vehicles promise more airplane-like operations for increased affordability, flexibility and safety for ultra high-speed flights within the atmosphere and into Earth's orbit. Because they do not have to carry their own oxidizers, as rockets must, vehicles powered by air-breathing scramjets can be smaller and lighter - or be the same size and carry more payload. NASA
Hypersonic engineering expert professor Chris Goyne's urgent request regarding national security and Virginia's exceptional resources for manufacturing hypersonic missiles and aircraft.
University of Virginia’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor Chris Goyne has been appointed air-breathing propulsion technical area collaboration co-lead for the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics (UCAH). The project is part of a $100 million U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)...
Research into Hypersonic Travel is Soaring Again in the United States, and UVA Engineering is Contributing Historic Expertise
With renewed interest nationally in hypersonic research, UVA Engineering has formed the UVA Hypersonic Research Complex, a collaboration of 17 faculty and their labs across...
UVA's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of associate professor Christoper P. Goyne to the Aerospace Advisory Council...
UVA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is working with Mitre Corp MITRE Corporation and four other universities to use space-based satellites to tackle real-world problems on earth.
Three Virginia university satellites, including one from UVA, were deployed into nearly simultaneous orbit from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer
A team of UVA engineering students designed an experiment to measure cosmic rays in the stratosphere, then attached it to a NASA balloon and sent it soaring 20 miles above New Mexico and Texas.
Student engineers are designing and will build and operate a three-pound, softball-size satellite that will orbit the Earth for two months, conducting experiments on atmospheric densities.
Partnering with NASA, Prof. Chris Goyne and UVA students lead a four-university consortium of multidisciplinary undergraduates on a joint mission to build a group of satellites,...
Hybrid Large Eddy Simulation/Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes Analysis of a Premixed Ethylene-Fueled Dual-Mode Scramjet Combustor, AIAA Journal, 2021 ABSNielsen, T, Edwards, JR, Chelliah, HK, Lieber, DA, Geipel, CM, Goyne, CP, Rockwell, RD, and Cutler, AD
High-resolution PIV for characterization of the inflow to a cavity flameholder, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol 31, Issue 11, 2020 ABSLieber, DA, Goyne, CP, and Gibbons, NP
Hydrodynamic Performance Characteristics of a Fluid Film Journal Bearing with a Rectangular Jacking Pocket, Journal of Tribology, Vol 142, Issue 2, 2020 ABSBranagan, M, Morgan, N, Goyne, C, Fittro, R, Rockwell, R, and He, M
Simulated Shock Train Control using an All-Coefficient Adaptive Control Approach, AIAA SciTech Forum, 2019 ABSRockwell, RD, Goyne, CP, Di, L, Lin, Z, Bakos, R, and Donbar, JM
Flame Structure and Dynamics in a Premixed Dual-mode Scramjet Combustor from Fluorescence Imaging, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol 35, Issue 3, 2019 ABSAllison, PM, Frederickson, K, Kirik, JW, Rockwell, RD, Goyne, CP, Lempert, WR, and Sutton, JA
Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy of a Hydrogen Diffusion Flame in a Ramjet, AIAA Journal, Vol 57, Issue 1, 2018 ABSCutler, AD, Cantu, LML, Gallo, ECA, Mannotti, G, Rockwell, RD, and Goyne, CP
Aerodynamics of Lean Blowout in a Premixed Dual-Mode Scramjet, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol 34, Issue 3, 2018 ABSKirik JW, Goyne CP, McDaniel JC, and Rockwell RD