Carleton Knisely is the Flight Assessments Lead for the Flight Performance Integration Project and the NA-115 Delivery Environments Portfolio Lead at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Carleton and his team use various aerodynamic, aerothermal, and flight dynamics modeling/simulation tools to characterize the in-flight environments of vehicles at hypersonic speeds with a particular emphasis on the implications for the payload. Prior to his time at LLNL, Carleton received his PhD from UCLA, where he studied real-gas effects on hypersonic boundary layer transition with support from DoD grants (US Air Force & Navy) and the NDSEG Fellowship.

Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

MS Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

BS Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

A. Varma, C. Knisely, X. Zhong, “Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Receptivity to Three-Dimensional Acoustic Pulse Disturbances”, AIAA SciTech Forum, AIAA-2023-XXXX, January 2023.

C. Knisely, B. Perfect, B. McPolin, “Flight Modeling in Support of Engineering Analysis at LLNL”, AIAA Defense Forum (Classified), AIAA-Defense2022-9012, April 2022.

Y. Li, C. Knisely, “Thermo-mechanical Environment Characterization of Hypersonic Systems using a 3-DoF Trajectory Optimization Tool”, AIAA Defense Forum (Classified), AIAA-Defense2022-9014, April 2022.

L. Zanus, C. Knisely, F. Miró Miró, and F. Pinna, “Multiple-Tool Stability Analysis of Supersonic Modes in Thermo-Chemical Nonequilibrium Boundary Layers”, AIAA Aviation Forum, AIAA 2020-3067, June 2020.

C. Knisely and X. Zhong, “Impact of Vibrational Nonequilibrium on the Supersonic Mode in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA Journal, 58(4):1704-1714, 2020.

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.

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.

C. Knisely and X. Zhong, “Significant Supersonic Modes and the Wall Temperature Effect in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA Journal, 57(4):1552-1566, 2019.

C. Knisely, C. Haley, and X. Zhong, “Impact of Conical Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition on Skin Drag and Heating", AIAA SciTech Forum, AIAA 2019-1134, January 2019.

C. Knisely and X. Zhong, “Impact of Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects on the Supersonic Mode in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA SciTech Forum, AIAA 2019-1132, 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 Aviation Forum, AIAA 2018-3218, June 2018.

C. Knisely and X. Zhong, “Supersonic Modes in Hot-Wall Hypersonic Boundary Layers with Thermochemical Nonequilibrium Effects", AIAA SciTech Forum, AIAA 2018-2085, January 2018.

C. Knisely and X. Zhong, “An Investigation of Sound Radiation by Supersonic Unstable Modes in Hypersonic Boundary Layers", AIAA Aviation Forum, AIAA 2017-4516, June 2017.

Scoggins, J.B., Knisely, C., Magin, T. “Crossed contributions to electron and heavy-particle transport fluxes for magnetized plasmas in the continuum regime." AIP Conference Proceedings 1786, 130002, 2016.