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Professional and Teaching Experience
Aeronautical Engineer, Royal Australian Air Force (1992 - 2001)
Structural fatigue flight test, requirements analysis, specification development, tender evaluation and source selection, structural integrity, flight performance, stability and control, reliability and maintainability, aircraft systems integration.
Lecturer, UNSW@ADFA (2001-2008)
Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, University of Oxford (2007)
Senior Lecturer, UNSW@ADFA (2008 – present)
Computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, refrigeration, statics and dynamics, aeromechanical systems, computer programming, mathematics.
Research Interests
Aerodynamics of flying and swimming in nature: efficiency of locust wings in forward flight (click here for media release), hovering performance and manoeuvrability of hoverflies (with Animal Flight Group, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford); performance of dragonfly wings in hover.
Biomimetic technologies for Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) and low Reynolds Number unsteady aerodynamics (with AeroHydro Research and Technology Associates Inc. USA, Prof J.C.S. Lai, M.A. Ashraf).
Biomimetic technologies for power generation, flapping foil wind and water turbines (with AeroHydro Research and Technology Associates Inc. USA, Prof J.C.S. Lai, M.A. Ashraf, M. Ripper).
Fluidic thrust vectoring for jet and rocket nozzles (with Dr A. Neely, B. Blake, A. Ali, J-Y. Lim)
Supersonic cavity flows (with UNSW@ADFA Fluids, Thermodynamics, Supersonics & Hypersonics Group).
Acquisition and employment of Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in the Australian Defence Force (with K. Joyce).
Cellular neural networks for simulation of fluid flows (with Dr T. Ray, V. Naidu).
Fun stuff... Formula One in Schools (with Dr W. Smith).
Publications
Journal Articles
Young, J., Walker, S.M., Bomphrey, R.J., Taylor, G.K., and Thomas, A.L.R. (2009) "Details of Insect Wing Design and Deformation Enhance Aerodynamic Function and Flight Efficiency", Science, Vol. 325, pp. 1549-1552, doi: 10.1126/science.1175928.
Platzer, M.F., Jones, K.D., Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2008) "Flapping-wing aerodynamics: Progress and challenges", AIAA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 9, pp. 2136-2149, doi: 10.2514/1.29263.
Young, J., Lai, J.C.S. and Germain, C. (2008) "Simulation and Parameter Variation of Flapping Wing Motion based on Dragonfly Hovering", AIAA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 918-924, doi: 10.2514/1.31610.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2007) "Mechanisms Influencing the Efficiency of Oscillating Airfoil Propulsion", AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 7, pp. 1695-1702, doi: 10.2514/1.27628.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2007) "Vortex Lock-In Phenomenon in the Wake of a Plunging Airfoil", AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp.485-490, doi: 10.2514/1.23594.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2007) “On the Aerodynamic Forces of a Plunging Airfoil”, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp.1388-1397.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2004) "Oscillation Frequency and Amplitude Effects on the Wake of a Plunging Airfoil", AIAA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 2042-2052, doi: 10.2514/1.5070.
Conference Papers
Young, J., Blake, J.M. and Lai, J.C.S. (2009) “A Review of Biomimetic Technologies for Micro Vehicles”, 6th Asian-Pacific Conference on Aerospace Science and Technology (APCATS), Huangshan, China, 15-19 November, 10 pp.
Ashraf, M.A., Isaacs, A., Young, J., Lai, J.C.S. and Ray, T. (2009) “Numerical Simulation and Multi-Objective Design of Flow Over Oscillating Airfoil for Power Extraction”, Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow (CMFF’09), 14th International Conference on Fluid Flow Technologies, Budapest, Hungary, 9-12 September, 8 pp.
Platzer, M.F., Ashraf, M.A., Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2009) “Development of a New Oscillating-Wing Wind and Hydropower Generator”, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 5-8 January, 13 pp.
Ashraf, M.A., Young, J., Lai, J.C.S. and Platzer, M.F. (2009) “Aerodynamic Analysis of Flapping-Wing Propellers For HALE Aircraft”, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 5-8 January, 15 pp.
Ashraf, M.A., Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2009) “Effect of Airfoil Thickness, Camber and Reynolds Number on Plunging Airfoil Propulsion”, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 5-8 January, 10 pp.
Wang, Y., Kalyanasundaram, S. and Young, J. (2008) “Design and Fabrication of Dragonfly Test Bed for Aerodynamic Characterization”, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 3-5 December, 6 pp.
Platzer, M.F., Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2008) “Flapping-Wing Technology: Its Potential For Air Vehicle Propulsion And Airborne Power Generation”, 26th Congress of the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences, Anchorage, Alaska, 14-19 September.
Ashraf, M.A., Lai, J. C.S. and Young, J. (2007) “Numerical analysis of flapping wing aerodynamics”, Proceedings of 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-7 December.
Neely, A. and Young, J. (2007) “Upstream Influence of a Porous Screen on the Flow Field of a Free Jet”, Proceedings of 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 2-7 December.
Neely, A.J., Gesto, F.N. and Young, J. (2007) “Performance Studies of Shock Vector Control Fluidic Thrust Vectoring”, AIAA 2007-5086, 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Cincinatti, Ohio, 08-11 July, 14 pp.
Young, J., Lai, J.C.S. and Germain, C. (2006) "Numerical Simulation and Parameter Variation of Insect Wing Motion based on Dragonfly Hovering", AIAA-2006-38, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, 9 pp.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2006) “On the Aerodynamic Forces of a Plunging Airfoil”, 5th Asian Pacific Conference on Aerospace Technology and Science (APCATS), Guilin, China, Oct 30 – Nov 03, 10pp.
Nasr, A., Lai, J.C.S., Siah, O. and Young, J. (2006) "Flow Characteristics of an Inclined Offset Jet", AIAA-2006-3372, 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, San Francisco, California, 6 pp.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2005) "Oscillating Foil Propulsion - A Comparison of Navier- Stokes and Inviscid Numerical Methods", in International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows (ICJWSF), Mie, Japan, 6 pp.
Young, J., Lai, J.C.S., Kaya, M. and Tuncer, I.H. (2004) "Thrust and Efficiency of Propulsion by Oscillating Foils", in 3rd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD3), Toronto, Canada, 6 pp.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2002) "Thrust and Lift Dependence of a Plunging Airfoil on Oscillation Frequency and Amplitude", 2nd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD2), Sydney, 15-19 July, 6 pp.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2001) "Frequency and Amplitude Effects in the Wake of a Plunging Airfoil", 14th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Adelaide, 10-14 December, 4 pp.
Young, J. and Lai, J.C.S. (2000) "A Computational Study of the Wake Structure of a Plunging Airfoil", 1st International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD1), Kyoto, Japan, 10-15 July, 6 pp.
Thesis
Young, J. (2005) “Numerical Simulation of the Unsteady Aerodynamics of Flapping Airfoils”, PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, July 2005, 328 pp.