Carl Knowlen
Co-Principal Investigator
Knowlen earned his BS and MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1983 and 1985. He continued to receive his PhD from UW, researching ram accelerators. He has been teaching for the A&A Department since 2002 and was appointed to his current position as a Research Associate Professor in 2015. Dr. Knowlen’s research activities are related to energy conversion, combustion physics, and hypervelocity propulsion.
Tyler Mundt
PhD Student
Tyler Mundt is a PhD student at the University of Washington. His research in the Rotating Detonation Engine Lab focuses on understanding the influence of the annular combustor’s geometry, namely radius of curvature and annular gap width, on engine behavior, and has demonstrated operation near the theoretical minimum size scale limit.