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Aerospace Vehicle Design

 

 

 

 

  • Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft
  • Unconventional airliner configurations
  • Supersonic aircraft
  • Hypersonic vehicles
  • Spacecraft

Design Optimization

 

 

 

 

  • Multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization 
  • Multi-fidelity modeling
  • Reduced Order Modeling
  • Design under uncertainty
  • Hierarchical decomposition methods

Numerical Methods

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Discrete and continuous adjoint methods
  • Discontinuous Galerkin
  • Shock capturing schemes
  • Thermochemical non-equilibrium and high-enthalpy flows

 

Uncertainty Quantification

Uncertainy Quantification picture

 

 

 

 

 

  • Quantifying and reducing numerical errors
  • Uncertainties due to natural variability (aleatory sources)
  • Model-form uncertainties related to computational models (epistemic sources)