Dr. Carleton Knisely

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of California, Los Angeles

Current research at UCLA

Education

  • PhD Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018
    • Thesis: "Supersonic Unstable Modes in Hypersonic Boundary Layers with Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects"
  • MS Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015
  • BS Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University, 2014
  • NDSEG Fellow 2015

Research Interests

  • Hypersonic boundary layer stability
  • Thermochemical non-equilibrium flows and ablation
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • High-temperature gas dynamics
  • Combustion

Publications

  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "Sound radiation by supersonic unstable modes in hypersonic blunt cone boundary layers. II. Direct numerical simulation", Physics of Fluids, 31, 024104 (2019). doi:10.1063/1.5077007
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "Sound radiation by supersonic unstable modes in hypersonic blunt cone boundary layers. I. Linear stability theory", Physics of Fluids, 31, 024103 (2019). doi:10.1063/1.5055761
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "Significant Supersonic Modes and the Wall Temperature Effect in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA Journal, Vol. 57, No. 4 (2019), pp. 1552-1566. doi:10.2514/1.J057775
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "Impact of Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects on the Supersonic Mode in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA paper 2019-1132, January 2019.
  • C. Knisely, C. Haley and X. Zhong, "Impact of Conical Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition on Skin Drag and Heating", AIAA paper 2019-1134, January 2019.
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "The Supersonic Mode and the Role of Wall Temperature in Hypersonic Boundary Layers with Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects", AIAA paper 2018-3218, June 2018.
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "Supersonic Modes in Hot-Wall Hypersonic Boundary Layers with Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects", AIAA paper 2018-2085, January 2018.
  • C. Knisely and X. Zhong, "An Investigation of Sound Radiation by Supersonic Unstable Modes in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA paper 2017-4516, June 2017.

Interests

  • Lacrosse
  • Snowboarding
  • German language and culture