Amna Khraibut

I was awarded a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Canberra, in March 2018. My research experience entailed numerical, experimental and analytical methods applied to hypersonic separated flows, non-equilibrium flows, rarefied flows and boundary layer transition. My educational background is in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering so I am well acquainted with areas of fluid mechanic, thermodynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, flight dynamics, orbital mechanics, and aircraft and missile design, which are relevant to the advertised position. I have over 15 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer with Kuwait Air Force on both fixed wing and rotary military aircraft. I have over 80 flight hrs of flight on both the United States and Spain on single engine aircraft. Academically, my hypersonic research resulted in publications in the prestigious Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press) to whom I have been acting as a reviewer. Overall, I have over 5 years of research experience at various national and international institutes. Recently, I have been involved in more teaching in fluid mechanics, thermofluids, and introduction to aerospace engineering in UNSW, Canberra. I am currently seeking an academic position in Aerospace Engineering. I have been a member in AIAA’s High Speed Air Breathing Technical Committee and more recently involved with the Australian Division of Royal Aeronautical Society.

• I was awarded a full scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait to obtain my undergraduate degrees at United States.
• I was awarded a one year intern program by the Kuwait Fund to gain practical engineering experience after graduating
• I was awarded a scholarship by the University of New South Wales, Canberra, to complete my Ph.D.
• I was awarded an 18 month fellowship of conduct research at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics.
• I have passed EASA's ground schools for Private Pilot License and accumulated over 80 hours on a single engine aircraft.
• I have been acting as a reviewer for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
• I have been a member of AIAA's High Speed Air Breathing Technical Committee.

• The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
• The Royal Aeronautical Society (ReAS) - Australian Division.
• Kuwait Society for Engineers.

Journals

1.  Khraibut, A., and Gai, S.L. "Note on Stability, Transition and Rarefaction in Hyperosnic Couette Flow - A Particle Approach," in Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids. UNDER REVIEW. 

2.  Khraibut, A., and Gai, S.L. "Bluntness and incidence effects in hypersonic flows with large separated regions." Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022;947:A5. doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.605.

3.  Khraibut, A., Gai, S., and Neely, A., “Numerical study   of bluntness effects on laminar leading edge separation in hypersonic flow”. Journal of Fluid Mechanics,    2019.   878: p. 386-419.

4.  Gai, S.L. and Khraibut, A., “Hypersonic compression   corner flow with large separated regions”. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019.   877: p. 471-494..

5. Khraibut, A.,   Gai, S.L., Brown, L.M. and Neely, A.J., “Laminar hypersonic leading-edge   separation - a numerical study,” in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Cambridge Univ. Press, volume 821, pp. 624-646, 2017.   

Conferences

1.   Khraibut,   A., Chazot, O., Magin, T. and Gai, S. L., “A Numerical Study of Thermal   Nonequilibrium and High-Density Effects on the VKI Longshot Contoured Nozzle”. Presented in SciTech 2021.

2.   Khraibut, A. and Gai, S.L., “Flow steadiness over a   double wedge at Mach 7 including effect of trailing edge   expansion”. Presented in Hypersonics2018 in September 2018, Orlando, Florida.

3.   Khraibut, A. and Gai,   S.L., "Effect of expansion and wall temperature on steadiness of   high-enthalpy nitrogen flow over a double wedge at Mach 7," in 53rd   International Conference of Applied Aerodynamics. 2018. Salon-de-provence,   France.

4.   Gai, S.L. and Khraibut A., “Wall temperature and   viscous interaction effect on incipient separation in laminar hypersonic   shock-boundary layer interactions,” in 53rd International Conference of Applied   Aerodynamics. 2018. Salon-de-provence, France.

5.   Khraibut, A., Laminar hypersonic leading-edge   separation, University of New South Wales, Canberra, 2018. Ph.D. Thesis.

6.   Khraibut, A., Gai, S.L. and Neely, A.J., “A   numerical study of hypersonic laminar leading-edge separation with emphasis   on wall temperature and real gas effects,” In 51st 3AF International   Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, 2016.

7.   Gai, S.L., Khraibut, A. and Currao, G.M.D., “On the   structure of large-scale separation in hypersonic,” in 7th European   Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, 2017.

8.   Khraibut, A., Gai, S.L. and Neely, A.J., “Separation   and reattachment in laminar hypersonic flow,” in 50th 3AF International   Conference on Applied Aerodynamics, 2015.

9.   Khraibut, A.,   Deepak, N.R., Gai, S.L. and Neely, A.J., “Hypersonic leading-edge   separation,” in 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 2014.

10.  Gai, S.L.,   Prakash, R., Khraibut, A., LePage, L., O’Byrne, S., Large scale hypersonic   separated flows at moderate Reynolds number and moderate density, Phys.   Fluids, 2132, 2019.