BS Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 2008
MS Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, 2010
MS Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, 2012
PhD Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, 2015
Thesis: "Effects of Thermochemical Nonequilibrium on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability in the Presence of Surface Ablation and Isolated Two-Dimensional Roughness"
NDSEG Fellow
MAE Dept. Commencement Award for Outstanding Ph.D.
Research Interests
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Numerical Methods
High temperature gas dynamics
Effects of thermochemical nonequilibrium on hypersonic boundary layer stability
Effects of graphite ablation on hypersonic boundary layer transtion over cones and blunt bodies
Massive CFD data set post-processing
Publications
C. Mortensen, "Toward an understanding of supersonic modes in boundary-layer transition for hypersonic flow over blunt cones," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 846, pp. 789-814, 2018. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.246
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, “Simulation of Second-Mode Instability in a Real-Gas Hypersonic Flow with Graphite Ablation,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1632-1652, 2014.
Mortensen, C., Woodley, R., Gorrell, S., M. Gosnell: Data Mining Vortex Cores Concurrent with Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations, Real World Data Mining Applications, edited by M. Abou-Nasr, S. Lessmann, R. Stahlbock, and G. Weiss, Vol. 17 of Annals of Information Systems, Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 299--324.
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, “Real Gas and Surface Ablation Effects on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability over a Blunt Cone,” AIAA Journal, Acceptance Pending, 2015.
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, "Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability in a Real Gas with Two-Dimensional Surface Roughness", AIAA paper 2015-3077, June 2015.
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, "Real Gas and Surface Ablation Effects on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Instability over a Blunt Cone", AIAA paper 2013-2981, June 2013.
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, "Numerical Simulation of Graphite Ablation Induced Outgassing Effects on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Receptivity over a Cone Frustum", AIAA paper 2013-0522, January 2013.
C. Mortensen and X. Zhong, "High-Order Shock-Fitting Method for Hypersonic Flow with Graphite Ablation and Boundary Layer Stability", AIAA paper 2012-3150, June 2012.
Mortensen, C.: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Feature Extraction Method Using Subjective Logic. Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University (2010)
C. Mortensen, S. Gorrell, and R. Woodley, "An Intelligent Agent Architecture for Concurrent CFD Feature Extraction", AIAA paper 2010-1323, 2010.
Mortensen, C., Woodley, R., Gorrell, S.: Concurrent agent-enabled extraction of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) features in simulation. In: Proceedings of The 2009 International Conference on Data Mining. pp. 90–96 (July 2009)
