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Home / Faculty & Staff / Faculty / Stuart A. Craig
S. Alex Craig
  • sacraig@arizona.edu
    520.621.2514

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Stuart A. Craig

  • Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Stuart "Alex" Craig is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. (2009) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. (2015) degree in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M University. Prof. Craig was a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2015 to 2016 before joining the AME Department as an Assistant Professor in 2016. He won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2018. He is a member of the Fluid Dynamics Technical committee as well as a Senior Member of AIAA and a member of the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Craig conducts wind-tunnel experiments in the field of boundary-layer stability and transition with an emphasis on high-speed and hypersonic flows.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering
    • Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States
    • Stability of high-speed, three-dimensional boundary layers
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States

Work Experience

  • University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2016 - Ongoing)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (2016 - 2017)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015 - 2016)
  • Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas (2009 - 2015)

Interests

Teaching

Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Compressible Flow, Hydrodynamic Stability

Research

Boundary-layer stability and transition, hydrodynamic instability, experimental fluid mechanics, hypersonic aerodynamics, aerodynamic heating

Courses

Instrumentation Lab

AME 300 (Spring 2021)
AME 300 (Fall 2020)
AME 300 (Spring 2020)
AME 300 (Fall 2018)
AME 300 (Fall 2017)
AME 300 (Fall 2016)

Gasdynamics

AME 323 (Spring 2020)
AME 323 (Spring 2019)
AME 323 (Spring 2018)

Intro to Fluid Mechanics

AME 331 (Spring 2017)
BME 331 (Spring 2017)

Directed Research

AME 492 (Spring 2019)
AME 592 (Spring 2022)

Boundary Layers

AME 535 (Fall 2022)

Graduate Seminar

AME 696G (Fall 2022)
AME 696G (Spring 2022)
AME 696G (Fall 2019)
AME 696G (Fall 2018)

Research

AME 900 (Spring 2022)
AME 900 (Fall 2021)
AME 900 (Spring 2021)
AME 900 (Fall 2020)
AME 900 (Spring 2020)
AME 900 (Fall 2019)
AME 900 (Spring 2019)
AME 900 (Spring 2018)
AME 900 (Fall 2017)

Thesis

AME 910 (Spring 2022)
AME 910 (Fall 2021)
AME 910 (Spring 2021)
AME 910 (Fall 2020)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

  • Craig, S., Humber, R., Hofferth, J., & Saric, W. (2019). Nonlinear behaviour of the Mack mode in a hypersonic boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 872, 74-99. doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.359
  • Kocian, T. S., Moyes, A. J., Reed, H. L., Craig, S. A., Saric, W. S., Schneider, S. P., & Edelman, J. B. (2018). Hypersonic Crossflow Instability. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. doi:10.2514/1.A34289
  • Craig, S. A., & Saric, W. S. (2016). Crossflow instability in a hypersonic boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 808, 224--244. doi:10.1017/jfm.2016.643

Proceedings Publications

  • Flood, J., Taubert, L., & Craig, S. (2020, January). First and Mack-mode instabilities in a flat-plate boundary layer at Mach 4. In AIAA SciTech 2020.
  • Flood, J., Taubert, L., & Craig, S. (2020, January). Flow quality mapping of the Mach 4 Quiet Ludwieg Tube. In AIAA SciTech 2020.
  • Flood, J., Taubert, L., & Craig, S. (2019, June). Initial flow quality of the Mach 4 Quiet Ludwieg Tube. In AIAA Aviation 2019.

Presentations

  • Craig, S. (2017, Apr 17). High-speed stability and transition experiments at the University of Arizona. Invited Seminar. New Mexico State University.
  • Craig, S. (2017, Feb 17). Boundary-layer stability and transition experiments at the University of Arizona. Invited Seminar. Purdue University.
  • Craig, S. (2017, Mar 17). High-speed stability and transition experiments at the University of Arizona. Invited Seminar. NASA Langley Research Center.
  • Mula, S., Craig, S., & Prestridge, K. (2016, 11). Dynamics of Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) mixing with reshock. APS Division of Fluid Dynamics 2016. Portland, OR: American Physical Society.

Awards

  • Young Investigator Award
    • Office of Naval Research, Spring 2018
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