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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)