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White, Edward Professor and Associate Department Head
Positions
- Professor and Associate Department Head, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
My research interests includes experimental aerodynamics, laminar-to-turbulent transition, wind-turbine aerodynamics, dynamic stall, and surface roughness effects.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Long, R. R., White, E. B., Tichenor, N. R., & Kremeyer, K.
(2017).
Instantaneous Wind-Tunnel Model Vibration Measurements Using a Kalman Filtering Approach. Journal of Fluids Engineering.
139(7), 071106.
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Monschke, J. A., Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2016).
Acoustic Receptivity Measurements Using Modal Decomposition of a Modified Orr–Sommerfeld Equation. AIAA Journal.
54(3), 805-815.
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Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2016).
Structure of turbulent wedges created by isolated surface roughness. Experiments in Fluids.
57(4), 47.
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Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2015).
Roughness receptivity and shielding in a flat plate boundary layer. J. FLUID MECH..
777, 430-460.
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Wilcox, B., & White, E.
(2015).
Computational analysis of insect impingement patterns on wind turbine blades. Wind Energy.
19(3), 483-495.
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Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Active Noise Control in a Closed-Circuit Wind Tunnel. AIAA Journal.
52(9), 1829-1838.
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Lovig, E. N., Downs, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Passive Laminar Flow Control at Low Turbulence Levels. AIAA Journal.
52(5), 1072-1075.
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Ehrmann, R. S., Loftin, K. M., Johnson, S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Lock-in of elastically mounted airfoils at a 90° angle of attack. Journal of Fluids and Structures.
44, 205-215.
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Denissen, N. A., & White, E. B.
(2013).
Secondary instability of roughness-induced transient growth. Physics of Fluids.
25(11), 114108-114108.
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Downs, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2013).
Free-stream turbulence and the development of cross-flow disturbances. J. FLUID MECH..
735, 347-380.
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Schmucker, J. A., Osterhout, J. C., & White, E. B.
(2011).
Speckle technique for dynamic drop profile measurement on rough surfaces. Experiments in Fluids.
52(1), 123-136.
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Downs, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2011).
Spectral analysis of phase-shifting measurements of crossflow waves. Experiments in Fluids.
51(6), 1673-1684.
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Denissen, N. A., & White, E. B.
(2009).
Continuous spectrum analysis of roughness-induced transient growth. Physics of Fluids.
21(11), 114105-13.
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Denissen, N. A., & White, E. B.
(2008).
Roughness-Induced Bypass Transition, Revisited. AIAA Journal.
46(7), 1874-1877.
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White, E. B., & Schmucker, J. A.
(2008).
A Runback Criterion for Water Drops in a Turbulent Accelerated Boundary Layer. Journal of Fluids Engineering.
130(6), 061302.
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Downs, R. S., White, E. B., & Denissen, N. A.
(2008).
Transient Growth and Transition Induced by Random Distributed Roughness. AIAA Journal.
46(2), 451-462.
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Ergin, F. G., & White, E. B.
(2006).
Unsteady and Transitional Flows Behind Roughness Elements. AIAA Journal.
44(11), 2504-2514.
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WHITE, E. B., & SARIC, W. S.
(2005).
Secondary instability of crossflow vortices. J. FLUID MECH..
525, 275-308.
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White, E. B., Rice, J. M., & Ergin, F. G.
(2005).
Receptivity of stationary transient disturbances to surface roughness. Physics of Fluids.
17(6), 064109-12.
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White, E. B., & Ergin, F. G.
(2004).
Using laminar-flow velocity profiles to locate the wall behind roughness elements. Experiments in Fluids.
36(5), 805-812.
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Saric, W. S., Reed, H. L., & White, E. B.
(2003).
STABILITY AND TRANSITION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARY LAYERS. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.
35(1), 413-440.
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White, E. B.
(2002).
Transient growth of stationary disturbances in a flat plate boundary layer. Physics of Fluids.
14(12), 4429-4439.
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Long, R. R., White, E. B., Tichenor, N. R., & Kremeyer, K.
(2017).
Instantaneous Wind-Tunnel Model Vibration Measurements Using a Kalman Filtering Approach. Journal of Fluids Engineering.
139(7), 071106.
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conference paper
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Long, R., & White, E. B.
(2017).
Experiments on dynamic aeroelastic response of wind turbine blades
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McMillan, M. N., Berger, A. R., & White, E. B.
(2017).
Measurements of distributed roughness receptivity
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Suryanarayanan, S., Goldstein, D. B., Berger, A. R., White, E. B., & Brown, G. L.
(2017).
Mechanics of distributed roughness shielding for suppression of roughness induced boundary layer transition
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Suryanarayanan, S., Goldstein, D. B., Brown, G. L., Berger, A. R., & White, E. B.
(2017).
On the Mechanics and Control of Boundary Layer Transition induced by Discrete Roughness Elements
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Berger, A. R., McMillan, M. N., White, E. B., Suryanarayanan, S., & Goldstein, D. B.
(2017).
Suppression of transition behind a discrete roughness element using a downstream element
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Maniaci, D. C., White, E. B., Wilcox, B., Langel, C. M., van Dam, C. P., & Paquette, J. A.
(2016).
Experimental Measurement and CFD Model Development of Thick Wind Turbine Airfoils with Leading Edge Erosion. Journal of Physics Conference Series.
022013-022013.
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Herring, A. P., Kutz, D., Brown, L., & White, E. B.
(2015).
Upgrades to the Texas A&M Oran W. Nicks Low-Speed Wind Tunnel for M=0.4 Operation
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Herring, A. P., Kutz, D., Brown, L., & White, E. B.
(2015).
Upgrades to the Texas A&M Oran W. Nicks Low-Speed Wind Tunnel for M=0.4 Operation
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Langel, C. M., Chow, R., Hurley, O. F., Van Dam, C. P., Maniaci, D. C., Ehrmann, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2015).
Analysis of the Impact of Leading Edge Surface Degradation on Wind Turbine Performance
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Kuester, M. S., Sharma, A., White, E. B., Goldstein, D. B., & Brown, G.
(2014).
Distributed Roughness Shielding in a Blasius Boundary Layer
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Langel, C. M., Chow, R., Van Dam, C. P., Rumsey, M. A., Maniaci, D. C., Ehrmann, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
A Computational Approach to Simulating the Effects of Realistic Surface Roughness on Boundary Layer Transition
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Sharma, A., Drews, S., Kuester, M. S., Goldstein, D. B., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Evolution of disturbances due to distributed surface roughness in laminar boundary layers
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Ehrmann, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Influence of 2D Steps and Distributed Roughness on Transition on a NACA 63(3)-418
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Sharp, N. S., & White, E. B.
(2014).
Roughness-Induced Transient Growth on a Hypersonic Blunt Cone
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Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2013).
Distributed-Roughness-Induced Transient Growth in a Flat Plate Boundary Layer
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Ehrmann, R. S., White, E. B., Maniaci, D. C., Chow, R., Langel, C. M., & Van Dam, C. P.
(2013).
Realistic Leading-Edge Roughness Effects on Airfoil Performance
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Sengupta, A.
(2013).
Performance of a Subscale CPAS Conical Ribbon Drogue Parachute in a Turbulent Wake
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Kuester, M. S., & White, E. B.
(2012).
Acoustic forcing and control of reflected waves in the Klebanoff-Saric wind tunnel
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Downs, R. S., Lovig, E. N., & White, E. B.
(2012).
Experimental investigation of the crossflow instability in moderate freestream turbulence
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Long, R. R., & White, E. B.
(2012).
Real-time measurement of skin friction using calibrated multi-element hotfilm arrays
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Ehrmann, R. S., Loftin, K. M., Johnson, S., & White, E. B.
(2012).
Lock-in of elastically mounted airfoils at high angles of attack
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Hunt, L. E., Downs, R. S., Kuester, M. S., White, E. B., & Saric, W. S.
(2010).
Flow quality measurements in the Klebanoff-Saric Wind Tunnel
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Denissen, N., White, E., & Downs, R.
(2010).
Quantifying sub-optimal transient growth using biorthogonal decomposition. IUTAM Bookseries.
473-476.
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Denissen, N. A., Downs, R. S., & White, E. B.
(2009).
Transient growth due to surface roughness: Theory, simulation and experiment
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Schmucker, J. A., & White, E. B.
(2007).
Technique for measurement of droplet profiles for use in icing physics Studies
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Schmucker, J. A., & White, E. B.
(2007).
Measurements of water droplet movement in a stagnation point boundary layer. 10949-10962.
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White, E. B., Downs, R. S., & Emer, H. C.
(2006).
Disturbances generated by random and periodic surface roughness: Experimente and models. 1426-1439.
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White, E. B., & Oliver, M. J.
(2005).
Experiments on surface roughness effects in ice accretion
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Ergin, F. G., & White, E. B.
(2005).
Multicomponent and unsteady velocity measurements of transient disturbances. 7331-7343.
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Gürün, A. M., & White, E. B.
(2005).
Tollmien-Schlichting wave suppression and transition delay using stationary transient disturbances
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White, E. B., Shelley, M. A., & Gürün, A. M.
(2004).
Interactions of tollmien-schlichting waves and stationary transient disturbances
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White, E. B., & Ergin, F. G.
(2003).
Receptivity and transient growth of roughness-induced disturbances
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White, E. B., & Reshotko, E.
(2002).
Roughness-induced transient growth in a flat-plate boundary layer
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White, E. B., Saric, W. S., Gladden, R. D., & Gabet, P. M.
(2001).
Stages of swept-wing transition
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White, E. B., & Saric, W. S.
(2000).
Application of variable leading-edge roughness for transition control on swept wings
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Saric, W., White, E., & Reed, H.
(1999).
Boundary-layer receptivity to freestream disturbances and its role in transition
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Saric, W., & White, E.
(1998).
Influence of high-amplitude noise on boundary-layer transition to turbulence. 1-11.
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Miller, F. J., White, E., & Ross, H. D.
(1997).
Gravitational influences on flame propagation through non-uniform premixed gas systems. NASA Conference Publication.
343-348.
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Long, R., & White, E. B.
(2017).
Experiments on dynamic aeroelastic response of wind turbine blades
Research
principal investigator on
co-principal investigator on
- ARL: Hypersonic Vehicles awarded by United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 2019 - 2024
- Hypersonic Boundary Layer Turbulance (BOLT-II) Flight Test Experiment awarded by United States Air Force - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2019 - 2022
- IUSE/PFE: RED: REvolutionizing Diversity Of Engineering (REDO-E) awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2017 - 2022
- Stability of Partially Wetting Droplet in Wind awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2016 - 2019
- Hypervelocity Expansion Facility for Fundamental High-Enthalpy Research awarded by United States Department of the Navy - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2015 - 2016
Teaching
teaching activities
- AERO303 High Speed Aerodyn Instructor
- AERO472 Airfoil And Wing Design Instructor
- AERO491 Hnr-research Instructor
- AERO491 Hnr-research Instructor
- AERO601 Advanced Aerodynamics Instructor
- AERO681 Seminar:professional Dvlpmnt Instructor
- AERO684 Professional Internship Instructor
- AERO685 Directed Studies Instructor
- AERO691 Research Instructor
- AERO691 Research Instructor
Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
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Denissen, Nicholas Allen (2011-05). Roughness-induced Transient Growth: Continuous-spectrum Receptivity and Secondary Instability Analysis.
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Downs, Robert 1982- (2012-12). Environmental Influences on Crossflow Instability.
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Ehrmann, Robert Schaefer (2014-08). Effect of Surface Roughness on Wind Turbine Performance.
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Freels, Justin Reed (2012-08). An Examination of Configurations for Using Infrared to Measure Boundary Layer Transition.
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Guthery, John (2013-12). Assessment of Flow Efficiency Through a Closed Circuit Wind Tunnel with Recommendations for Improvements.
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Herring, Alexander (2015-05). Dynamic Pressure Improvements to Closed-Circuit Wind Tunnels with Flow Quality Analysis.
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Hidore, John Preston (2013-05). Investigation of Data Quality for Wind Tunnel Internal Balance Testing.
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Kuester, Matthew (2012-05). Acoustics in the Klebanoff-Saric Wind Tunnel: Background Identification, Forcing, and Active Control.
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Kuester, Matthew Scott (2014-05). Distributed Roughness Receptivity in a Flat Plate Boundary Layer.
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Kutz, Douglas M (2014-05). An Updated Procedure for Tare and Interference Wind Tunnel Testing of Strut-Mounted Models.
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Monschke, Jason Andrew (2015-12). Most-Critical Transient Disturbances in an Incompressible Flat-Plate Boundary Layer.
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Recla, Benjamin Jeremiah (2013-05). Developing a Practical Wind Tunnel Test Engineering Course for Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Students.
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Schmucker, Jason (2012-08). Experimental Investigation of Wind-Forced Drop Stability.
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Sharp, Nicole Susanne (2014-05). Hypersonic Measurements of Roughness-Induced Transient Growth.
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Stanford III, John William (2016-08). Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis Method for a Pyramidal External Balance.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States) 2000
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University - (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) 1997
- B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University - (Cleveland, Ohio, United States) 1995
Contact
first name
- Edward
has last name
- White
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
Aerospace Engineering
3141 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3141
USA
Other
- ebw@tamu.edu