John Wylie

Education

  • Anticipated: Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Received: B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2018
  • Received: M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023

Internships:

  • NSF-AFRL Aerospace Engineering Co-op, Air Force Research Laboratory– Wright Patterson AFB, OH

Joined CeFPaC

June 2019

CeFPaC Experience

CeFPaC offers an environment for diverse low speed flow physics research. John notes the professionalism and perspectives of his peers as a critical component in his personal growth as a fluid mechanician and research scientist. The access to state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities allows for multiple students to engage in relevant and insightful experiments, even within periods of global pandemic. John’s research interests include mitigation of Tollmien-Schlichting waves and crossflow instabilities over swept laminar airfoils using active surface modulation as well as control of turbulent coherent structures. He has explored flow control solutions in open- and closed-loop control architectures and is also interested in reduced order modelling and atmospheric boundary layers.

Selected Publications

Publications:

  • Wylie, J.D.B., Amitay, M., “Control of Artificially-Generated Hairpin Vortices in a Laminar Boundary Layer.” Submitted to 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum.
  • Jariwala, A., Wylie, J.D.B., Tsolovikos, A., Suryanarayanan, S., Bakolas, E., Amitay, M, Goldstein, D., “Generation of Hairpin Vortices Using a Hybrid Cyber-Physical Data Assimilation Approach.” Submitted to 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum.
  • Wylie, J.D.B., Mishra, S., Amitay, M., “Tollmien–Schlichting Wave Control on an Airfoil Using Dynamic Surface Modification.” AIAA Journal, 59(8), August 2021, https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J060233.
  • Wylie, J., Zhao, D., Mishra, S., and Amitay, M., “Control of T-S Waves on a Natural Laminar Flow Airfoil using Dynamic Surface Modification.” AIAA SciTech Forum, January 11-15 and 19-21, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-1547.

Presentations:

  • Wylie, J., Amitay, M., "Experimental Generation of Large-Scale Motion for Boundary Layer Control". 75th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Indianapolis, IN, November 20-22, 2022.
  • Wylie, J., Mishra, S., Amitay, M., “Control of Tollmien-Schlichting Waves on a Laminar Airfoil Using Dynamic Surface Modification.” AIAA SciTech Forum, January 19, 2021.
  • Wylie, J.D.B., Amitay, M., “Mitigation of Tollmien-Schlichting Waves over a Laminar Airfoil.” 73rd Annual Virtual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, Il, November 22-24, 2020.
  • Wylie J., Taylor, K., Amitay M. "Control of Laminar-Turbulent Transition on a Natural Laminar Flow Airfoil", 72nd Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, WA, November 26, 2019.
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