Rose Engineering & Research

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WILLIAM C. ROSE || HELEN C. COUGHLIN || PUBLICATIONS

PRESENT POSITION:
Dr. Rose is currently President of Rose Engineering & Research, Inc., a small-business, woman-owned corporation engaged in consulting and research efforts in the areas of experimental and computational aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy systems. He has been in this capacity for 20 years.

PREVIOUS POSITION:
Leader, Fluid Mechanics Group, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Ames Research Center. EDUCATION:
University of Nevada, B.S., 1962, Civil Engineering.
University of Nevada, M.S., 1965, Mechanical Engineering.
University of Washington, Ph.D., 1972, Mechanical Engineering.

GENERAL EXPERIENCE:
Dr. Rose has had thirty-five years of experience in research, design and development in the areas of experimental and computational fluid dynamics, advanced instrumentation systems, and ground-based aerodynamic and full-scale flight testing. He has been responsible for the development of state-of-the-art experimental techniques and mathematical modeling of complex fluid flow environments. He has integrated the experimental results obtained from these tests with advanced computer codes for the numerical simulation of the fluid flow.

Dr. Rose has had supervisory responsibility for major research and development programs, including several large-scale wind tunnel and flight test programs and subsequent data evaluation and analysis. The results of his research and developments have been reported in the open literature in over 80 major publications authored or co-authored by him.

Dr. Rose is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada (4009) and the State of California (M16455) licensed to practice Mechanical Engineering.

SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS:
A summary of Dr. Rose's extensive experience in the areas of computational and experimental fluid mechanics is given on the following pages, along with a list of publications on the following pages.

EXPERIENCE RELATED TO COMPUTATIONAL FLUID MECHANICS OF HIGH-SPEED AERODYNAMICS:
Dr. Rose has been responsible for development and design of instrumentation systems for both flight and wind-tunnel testing of turbulent flows typical of those in internal flowfields. His major contributions to the art of turbulent flow measurement include the first measurements of the complete compressible, turbulent Reynolds-Stress tensor [Publications 10, 11, 15, 16, 19 and 25], the first meaningful turbulence measurements in transonic flow [Publications 30, 32 and 35] and development of a novel surface gage for quantitative skin friction measurements in turbulent flows [Publications 37, 38 and 42]. These turbulence measurements are the bases upon which analytical turbulence models must be built for all but the most elementary flow fields. Examples of the formulation of turbulence models for use in numerical computations are given in Publications 14, 22, 23 and 45.

Experimental investigations of high-speed internal flowfields are reported in Publications 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. Computational investigations in such flowfields are reported in Publications 6, 7, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 33, 72 through 79, 83, 84, 85 and 86. Applications of these investigations to the design of a Mach 5 inlet model are reported in Publication 64. This design stands alone to date in its full treatment of the viscous-inviscid interaction important in hypersonic internal flowfields.

Dr. Rose’s work has focused on the development, application and validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis tools. Recently, some of these analysis tools have been integrated into design tools using optimization codes (e.g., NPSOL) for application to supersonic and hypersonic propulsion systems.

EXPERIENCE RELATED TO THE AERO-MECHANICS AND AERO-OPTICS OF OPEN-CAVITY FLOWS:
Dr. Rose has been responsible for development, design and application of instrumentation systems for wind tunnel and flight testing of turbulent flowfields. His major contributions to the understanding of turbulent flowfields related to the aeromechanics and aero-optics of open-cavity flowfields are described in the following publications. In Publication 32, definitive data and equations for the determination of properties affecting optical transmissibility of boundary layer and shear layer flows over open cavities were presented. Publication 41 transferred the wind tunnel experience to a full-scale flight environment in order to make measurements of turbulent flow properties associated with boundary layers and shear layer flowfields. Publication 46 presented the application of aerodynamics to optical reception and propagation through transonic turbulent flowfields. The measurement methods and procedures outlined in Publication 46 have been used extensively for determination of such things as image spot size and energy on target. These techniques have also been used in Publications 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 63 and 65. In these studies, the optical characteristics of boundary layer and shear layer flows characteristic of those occurring over open cavities have been investigated in the Airborne Laser Laboratory (ALL), the Airborne Optical Adjunct (AOA), the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) wind tunnel model. The optics of these flowfields, as well as the aero-mechanical/cavity resonance aspects are described in Publications 67, 68, 71, 80, 81, 82, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, and 94. These reports cover various aspects of ground-based (wind tunnel) and full-scale flight testing. Flight testing for open-cavity performance and evaluation, modification and certification have been carried out and reported in Publications 65 and 81.

Dr. Rose is considered an expert in wind tunnel testing and the development of treatments for the control of open-cavity flowfields. A combination of ground-based and full-scale flight testing has put him in a unique position with respect to the full understanding of the aero-optics and aeromechanics of turbulent boundary and shear layer flows on large transport aircraft. He has conducted aero-optical and aero-mechanical investigations in almost all of the major wind tunnel facilities in the United States. In addition to the ground-based investigations, several airborne studies have been carried out in which shear layer and boundary layer aero-optics and the aeromechanics of open cavities have been studied. Most of the airborne studies have been carried out at astronomy-operating altitudes on the KAO and on the ALL. In order to support flight testing, Dr. Rose currently holds an FAA Class II physical and a valid Air Force Form 702 Altitude Chamber Certification and is qualified to fly on high-altitude research aircraft.