Dr. Christopher Haley
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
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
- C. Haley and X. Zhong, "Supersonic Mode in a Low-Enthalpy Hypersonic Flow Over a Cone and Wave Packet Interference", Physics of Fluids, 33, 054104 (2021). doi:10.1063/5.0048089
- C. Haley and X. Zhong, "Mode F/S Wave Packet Interference and Acoustic-like Emissions in a Mach 8 Flow Over a Cone", AIAA paper 2020-1579, January 2020.
- C. Haley, K. Casper and X. Zhong, "Joint Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Roughness Effect on Hypersonic 2nd Mode Instability and Transition", AIAA paper 2019-0873, 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. Haley and X. Zhong, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Flow over a Blunt Cone with Axisymmetric Isolated Roughness", AIAA paper 2017-4514, June 2017.
Interests
- Sailing
- Skiing
- Recrational Mathematics
- Homebrew Computers
