Dr. Yuet Huang

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles

current research at UCLA

Education

  • BS Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, 2008
  • MS Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
  • PhD Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, 2016
    • Thesis: "Numerical Study of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Receptivity and Stability with Freestream Hotspot Perturbations"

Research Interests

  • Hypersonic boundary layer receptivity and transition
  • Hypervelocity thermal-chemical non-equilibrium flow
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Aerodynamics
  • Computations and simulations
  • Numerical methods

Publications

  • Y. Huang and X. Zhong, “Numerical Study of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Receptivity with Freestream Hotspot Perturbations,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2652-2672, 2014.
  • M. Miselis, Y. Huang, and X. Zhong, "Modal Analysis of Receptivity Mechanisms for a Freestream Hot-Spot Perturbation on a Blunt Compression-Cone Boundary Layer", AIAA paper 2016-3345, June 2016
  • Y. Huang and X. Zhong, "Numerical study of laser-spot effects on boundary-layer receptivity for blunt compression-cones in Mach-6 freestream," AIAA Paper No. 2010-4447, 2010.
  • Y. Huang and X. Zhong, "Numerical study of freestream hot-spot perturbation on boundary-layer receptivity for blunt compression-cones in Mach-6 flow," AIAA Paper No. 2011-3078, 2011.
  • Y. Huang and X. Zhong, "Numerical study of boundary-layer receptivity on blunt compression-cones in Mach-6 flow with localized freestream hot-spot perturbations," NATO AVT-Specialists’ Meeting on “Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition”, No. 20, 2012.
  • Y. Huang and X. Zhong, "Parametric Study of Boundary-Layer Receptivity to Freestream Hot-Spot Perturbation over a Blunt Compression Cone," AIAA Paper No. 2014-0774, 2014.