Positions

Overview

  • Prof. White joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department late in the 2006-2007 academic year. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2001-2004. Following his post-doctoral work, he joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Combustion Research Facility. His principal duties at Sandia included lead investigator in the Advanced Hydrogen Fueled Engine Laboratory.

    Prof. White teaches ME 646 – Experimental Measurement and Data Analysis and will teach courses in fluid mechanics, heat transfer and experimental methods in engineering.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2022 Properties of the inertial sublayer in adverse pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  937. 2022
    2020 Evaluation of the momentum integral method to determine the wall skin friction in separated flows.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  61. 2020
    2020 A self-sustaining process theory for uniform momentum zones and internal shear layers in high Reynolds number shear flows.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  901. 2020
    2020 A heat transfer model of fully developed turbulent channel flow.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  884:r7. 2020
    2019 Mean dynamics and transition to turbulence in oscillatory channel flow.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  880:864-889. 2019
    2019 The Design and Validation of a Thermal Boundary Layer Wall Plate.  Journal of Fluids Engineering.  141. 2019
    2019 High-fidelity measurements in channel flow with polymer wall injection.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  859:851-886. 2019
    2019 A uniform momentum zone-vortical fissure model of the turbulent boundary layer.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  858:609-633. 2019
    2018 Properties of the mean momentum balance in polymer drag-reduced channel flow.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  834:409-433. 2018
    2017 Efficacy of single-component MTV to measure turbulent wall-flow velocity derivative profiles at high resolution.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  58:128. 2017
    2017 An integral validation technique of RANS turbulence models.  Computers and Fluids.  149:150-159. 2017
    2017 A self-sustaining process model of inertial layer dynamics in high Reynolds number turbulent wall flows..  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.  375:20160090. 2017
    2015 An exact integral method to evaluate wall heat flux in spatially developing two-dimensional wall-bounded flows.  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.  84:856-861. 2015
    2014 On determining wall shear stress in spatially developing two-dimensional wall-bounded flows.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  55:1656. 2014
    2013 Streamwise velocity statistics in turbulent boundary layers that spatially develop to high Reynolds number.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  54:1629. 2013
    2013 Mean force structure and its scaling in rough-wall turbulent boundary layers.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  731:682-712. 2013
    2012 Echo particle image velocimetry..  Journal of Visualized Experiments.  4265. 2012
    2012 Re-examining the logarithmic dependence of the mean velocity distribution in polymer drag reduced wall-bounded flow.  Physics of Fluids.  24:021701. 2012
    2011 Integral form of the skin friction coefficient suitable for experimental data.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  50:43-51. 2011
    2010 Mean momentum balance analysis of rough-wall turbulent boundary layers.  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena.  239:1329-1337. 2010
    2009 PIV and PLIF to Evaluate Mixture Formation in a Direct-Injection Hydrogen-Fuelled Engine.  SAE International Journal of Engines.  1:657-668. 2009
    2008 Mechanics and prediction of turbulent drag reduction with polymer additives.  Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.  40:235-256. 2008
    2007 OH* chemiluminescence measurements in a direct injection hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine.  International Journal of Engine Research.  8:185-204. 2007
    2006 The hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine: a technical review.  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.  31:1292-1305. 2006
    2005 New answers on the interaction between polymers and vortices in turbulent flows.  Flow, Turbulence and Combustion.  74:311-329. 2005
    2004 On the coherent drag-reducing and turbulence-enhancing behaviour of polymers in wall flows.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  514:271-280. 2004
    2004 The turbulence structure of drag-reduced boundary layer flow.  Experiments in Fluids: experimental methods and their applications to fluid flow.  36:62-69. 2004
    2002 High-Reynolds-number turbulence in small apparatus: grid turbulence in cryogenic liquids.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  452:189-197. 2002
    2002 A comprehensive program to prevent pressure uclers in long-term care: exploring costs and outcomes.  Ostomy Wound Management.  48:52-62. 2002
    2002 The use of particle image velocimetry in the study of turbulence in liquid helium.  Journal of Low Temperature Physics.  126:327-332. 2002
    2000 Laser wipers..  Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics.  62:4421-4423. 2000
    2000 The onset of drag reduction by dilute polymer additives, and the maximum drag reduction asymptote.  Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  409:149-164. 2000
    1999 The decay of grid turbulence in polymer and surfactant solutions.  Physics of Fluids.  11:2387-2393. 1999
    1998 Does molecular rotation affect the transition Reynolds number?.  Physics Letters A: General Physics, Nonlinear Science, Statistical Physics, Atomic, Molecular and Cluster Physics, Plasma and Fluid Physics, Condensed Matter, Cross-disciplinary Physics, Biological Physics, Nanosciences, Quantum Physics.  238:323-327. 1998

    Conference Paper

    Year Title
    2019 Turbulence Production in the Low Polymer Drag Reduction Regime.  Springer proceedings in physics. 105-110. 2019
    2003 Boundary Layer Studies on Polymer Drag Reduction Using PIV and PLIF.  Volume 1: Fora, Parts A, B, C, and D. 2003
    A Qualitative Evaluation of Mixture Formation in a Direct-Injection Hydrogen-Fuelled Engine.  SAE Technical Papers.

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    Teaching Activities

  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course
  • Sys Modeling Simulation&Contrl Taught course
  • Sys Modeling Simulation&Contrl Taught course
  • Thermodynamics Taught course
  • Thermodynamics Taught course
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2023
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Dynamics Taught course 2022
  • Thermodynamics Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2022
  • Turbulence Taught course 2022
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Thermodynamics Taught course 2021
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2021
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2021
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2021
  • Senior Design Project I Taught course 2021
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2020
  • Spc Top/Exp Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2020
  • Turbulence Taught course 2020
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2019
  • Fluid Dynamics\Honors Taught course 2019
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2019
  • Spc Top/Exp Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2019
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2019
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2019
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2019
  • SpcTop/Boundary Layer Dynamics Taught course 2019
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2018
  • Spc Top/Exp Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2018
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2018
  • Spc Top/Exp Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2018
  • Turbulence Taught course 2018
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2017
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2017
  • Master's Project Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2017
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2017
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2016
  • Top/Exper Mthds Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2016
  • Turbulence Taught course 2016
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2016
  • Top/Experimental Fluid Dynamic Taught course 2016
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2015
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2015
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2015
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2015
  • Top/Experimental Fluid Dynamic Taught course 2015
  • Turbulence Taught course 2015
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Fluid Dynamics Taught course 2014
  • Honors Seminar Taught course 2014
  • Doctoral Research Taught course 2014
  • Master's Project Taught course 2014
  • Top/Experimental Fluid Dynamic Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York
  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University

    • Full Name

  • Christopher White