ANDREW CUTLER

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

 


EDUCATION

  • PhD (1984), MS (1980), Mech Eng’g, Stanford University.
  • BSc (1979), Mech Eng’g, Imperial College, London.

 

HONORS

  • NASA Team Excellence Award (1992)
  • Fulbright-Hayes Award (1979-1980).
  • Associate Fellow AIAA

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS (conducted at NASA Langley Research Center)

  • Mixing and combustion in supersonic combustion ramjet engines; turbulence; experimental data bases
  • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy and other laser-based non-intrusive methods for mixing and combustion
  • High-frequency pulse detonation tubes

 

GRANTS (Research Assistantships are available for research at NASA)

  • NASA NRA’s: “Dual-Pump CARS - Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering Measurements of Supersonic Combusting Flows” and “Simultaneous CARS and Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering”
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense, Test Media Effects Program: “Experiments to Provide Supersonic Combustion Mean Flow and Turbulence Data for CFD Model Development”

 

IMAGES

 

Dual-pump CARS measurements in a supersonic combustor (T, left; O2 mole fraction, right)

Laboratory supersonic flame

Mobile CARS – Rayleigh scattering instrument

 

 

RECENT  JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. O’Byrne, S., Danehy, P.M., Tedder, S.A., Cutler, A.D., “Dual-Pump Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Measurements in a Supersonic Combustor,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, p. 922-933, April 2007.
  2. Xiao, X, Edwards, J.R., Hassan, H.A., Cutler, A.D., “Variable Turbulent Schmidt-Number Formulation for Scramjet Applications,” AIAA Journal, Vol.44, No.3, pp. 593-599, March 2006
  3. Cutler, A. D., Diskin, G. S., Drummond, J. P., White, J. A.,  “A Supersonic Coaxial Jet Experiment for CFD Code Validation,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 585-592.
  4. Cutler, A.D., Danehy, P.M., Springer, R.R., O’Byrne, S., Capriotti, D.P., DeLoach, R., “Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopic Thermometry in a Supersonic Combustor,” AIAA J., Vol. 41, No. 12, Dec. 2003.
  5. Cutler, A.D., Doerner, S. E., “Effects of Swirl and Skew Upon Supersonic Wall Jet in Crossflow,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 17, No. 6, 2001, pp. 1327-1332.

 

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. Bivolaru, D., Danehy, P.M., Gaffney, R.L., Jr., Cutler, A.D., “Direct-View Multi-Point Two-Component Interferometric Rayleigh Scattering System,” AIAA 2008-236, 46th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan 7-10, 2008.
  2. Kernstine, K.H., Moore, C.J., Cutler, A.D., Mittal, R., “Initial Characterization of Self-Activated Movable Flaps,Pop-Up Feathers,” AIAA 2008-369, 46th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan 7-10, 2008.
  3. Drummond, J.P., Danehy, P.M., Bivolaru, D., Gaffney, R.L., Tedder, S.A., Cutler, A.D., “Supersonic combustion research at NASA,” 2007 Fall Technical Meeting, Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Virginia, Oct. 21-24, 2007 (invited)
  4. Drummond, J.P., Danehy, P.M., Bivolaru, D., Gaffney, R.L., Tedder, S.A., Cutler, A.D., “Modeling Combustion in Supersonic Flows,” Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena (NEPCAP 2007), Sochi, Russia, June 25-29, 2007 (invited)
  5. Bivolaru, D., Lee, J. W., Jones, S. B., Tedder, S., Danehy, P. M., Weikl, M. C., Magnotti, G., Cutler, A. D., “Mobile CARS - IRS Instrument for Simultaneous Spectroscopic Measurement of Multiple Properties in Gaseous Flows,” 22nd International Congress on Instrumentation in Aerospace Simulation Facilities, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, June 10 – 14, 2007.
  6. Cutler, A.D., Magnotti, G., Baurle, R., Bivolaru, D., Tedder, S., Danehy, P.M., Weikl, M.C., Beyrau, F., and Seeger, T., “Development of Supersonic Combustion Experiments for CFD Modeling,” AIAA-2007-0978, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, Jan. 8-11, 2007.

 

RECENT DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

  1. Springer, R.R., “Initial Development of a CFD Validation Experiment Utilizing CARS Diagnostics in a Supersonic Combustor,” DSc, Spring 2004.
  2. Merski, N. R., “An Improved Two-Color Relative-Intensity Phosphor Thermography Method For Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Aeroheating Measurements,” DSc, Spring 2000.
  3. Nguyen, N, “Pressure and Thrust Measurements of a High-Frequency Pulsed-Detonation Actuator,” MS, Fall 2007.
  4. Clifton, C, “Air-Argon Mixing in a Supersonic Coaxial Jet,” MS, Fall 2006.
  5. Hahn, J., “Unstart in a Hypersonic Inlet,” MS, in progress.
  6. Lonneman, P. J., “Development of an Actuator for Flow Control Utilizing Detonation,” MS, Summer 2004.
  7. Bouch, D. J., “Development and Investigation of a Hartmann-Springer Tube for Passive Heating of Scramjet Injectant Gases,” MS, Fall 2002.
  8. Harding, G. C., “Development of a High-Frequency Supersonic Pulsed Injector,” MS, Fall 2000.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

  • GWU Hampton Roads Center, 1 Old Oyster Point Road, Suite 200, Newport News, VA 23602
  • Tel (757) 269 2231, Fax (757) 269 4993
  • Email adcutler@gwu.edu