School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering

Dr Sam Stennett

Adjunct Research Fellow
School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering

Publications

Journal Articles (3)
Conference Papers (5)
Thesis (1)
Department Technical Report (1)

Journal Articles

Trudgian, Matthew A., Mee, David J., Stennett, Samuel J., Smith, Daniel R., Morgan, Richard G. and Veeraragavan, Anand (2026). Full-scale BOLT-1B experiments at flight-matched conditions in X3/R. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. doi: 10.2514/1.a36805
Stennett, Samuel, Gildfind, David, Andrianatos, Andreas, Morgan, Richard, Jacobs, Peter, James, Christopher, Toniato, Pierpaolo, Chan, Wilson and Silvester, Todd (2024). Large-scale free-piston-driven multi-mode shock expansion tunnel. Experiments in Fluids, 65 (2) 16. doi: 10.1007/s00348-023-03756-y
Gildfind, D. E., Hines, T., Jacobs, P. A., Stennett, S. and Dimitrijevic, I. (2019). Use of acceleration and optical waypoint measurements to estimate piston trajectory in an impulse facility. Shock Waves, 29 (6), 873-899. doi: 10.1007/s00193-018-0877-2

Conference Papers

Stennett, Samuel J., Gildfind, David, Jacobs, Peter, Morgan, Richard, James, Christopher and Toniato, Pierpaolo (2020). The X3R Free-Piston Reflected Shock Tunnel: Australia's New Large-Scale, Long-Duration Hypersonic Testing Capability. 23rd AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, Montreal, Canada , March 10-12, 2020. Reston, VA United States: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi: 10.2514/6.2020-2447
Stennett, Samuel, Gildfind, David and Jacobs, Peter A. (2019). Optimising the X3R reflected shock tunnel free-piston driver for long duration test times. 31st International Symposium on Shock Waves, Nagoya, Japan, 9-14 July 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91017-8_23
Stennett, S. J., Gildfind, D. E., Jacobs, P. A., Morgan, R. G., James, C. M. and Toniato, P. (2019). The X3R reflected shock tunnel: a new, long-duration operating mode for the X3 expansion tube. Asia Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2019), Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 4-6 December 2019.
Stennett, Samuel J., Gildfind, David E., Jacobs, Peter A. and Morgan, Richard G. (2018). Performance optimization of X3R: A new reflected shock tunnel mode for the X3 expansion tube. 34th AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology and Ground Testing Conference, 2018, Atlanta, GA United States, 25 - 29 June 2018. Reston, VA United States: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi: 10.2514/6.2018-3563
Stennett, Samuel, Chan, Wilson, Gildfind, David and Jacobs, Peter (2016). Validating the k-omega turbulence model for 3D flows within the CFD solver Eilmer. Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics, Brisbane, Australia, 30 November - 1 December 2015. Pfaffikon, Switzerland: Scientific.Net. doi: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.846.67

Thesis

Stennett, Samuel (2020). Development of an extended test time operating mode for a large reflected shock tunnel facility. PhD Thesis, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.925

Department Technical Report

Stennett, S. J., Gildfind, D. E., Jacobs, P. A. and Morgan, R. G. (2018). Operational verification of the X3R facility free-piston driver. 16. School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane.

Areas of research

Hypersonics