Dr. Christopher Haley

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles

Current research at UCLA

Education

  • PhD Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
    • Thesis: "Attenuation of Hypersonic Second Mode Instability with Discrete Surface Roughness on Straight Blunt Cones"
  • MS Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013
  • BS Aeronautical Science and Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2011
  • BS Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2011

Research Interests

  • Roughness induced transition on hypersonic cones
  • Design of atmospheric reentry vehicles and hypersonic craft
  • Numerical analysis
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • High performance computing

Publications

Interests

  • Sailing
  • Skiing
  • Recrational Mathematics
  • Homebrew Computers