- April 2021: Paper on Fully-Coupled Simulation of Plasma Discharges, Turbulence, and Combustion in a Scramjet Combustor in collaboration with the Computational Plasma & Reactive Flow Laboratory at UArizona was awarded the 2020 AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Best Paper Award.
- October 2020: Martin Liza presents at AIAA Tucson Section Technical Mini-Conference on the Simulation of Hypersonic Flow Fields with Applications to Aero-Optics.
- September 2020: Prof. Hanquist presented on Need for Speed: Hypersonic Flight at the University of Tennesse-Knoxville undergraduate aerospace seminar.
- June 2020: At the AIAA Aviation Meeting, CHANL was involved in two papers. The first one was presented in collaboration with the High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory at Stanford University and Nonequilibrium Gas & Plasma Dynamics Laboratory at CU-Boulder titled: Detailed Thermochemical Modeling of O2-Ar Mixtures in Reflected Shock Tube Flows. The second one was presented in collaboration with the Computational Plasma & Reactive Flow Laboratory at UArizona titled: Fully-Coupled Simulation of Plasma Discharges, Turbulence, and Combustion in a Scramjet Combustor.
- May 2020: Prof. Hanquist and Prof. Iain Boyd's paper on Electron Transpiration Cooling named named Editor's Choice for Frontiers in Physics 2019 - Plasma Physics.
- May 2020: Prof. Hanquist and Martin Liza was selected into the 2020 Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at AFRL-Aerospace Systems.
- January 2020: At the AIAA SCITECH Meeting, one paper was presented in collaboration with the Aerospace multi-Physical and Unconventional Systems Lab at Penn State titled: Impact of High-Temperature Effects on the Aerothermoelastic Behavior of Composite Skin Panels in Hypersonic Flow.
August 2019: CHANL was founded.