Center Background Students

 

The principal strengths of the Center in the Rotary Wing area are:

· Active control and alleviation of vibration and noise in rotors using actively controlled flaps and/or distributed active twist induced by piezoelectric actuation.

· Computational aeroelasticity in rotors.

· Active control of vibrations in the fuselage using ACSR (active control of structural response).

· Computational modeling and experimental testing of composite rotor blades with advanced geometry tips.

· De-icing of rotors using shape memory alloys.

· Nanocomposite development based on single wall carbon nanotubes.

· Development of microhelicopters, employing low Reynolds number airfoils, and their adaptive control.

· Shape memory alloy based smart tabs for rotor tracking control.

· Adaptive noise control.

· Structural optimization of helicopter rotors with multidisciplinary constraints.

· Rotary-wing aeroelastic scaling and its application to adaptive materials based actuation.

· Structural health monitoring

 

The principal strengths of the Center in the Fixed Wing area are:

· Active aeroelastic tailoring.

· Computational aeroelasticity, aeroelastic scaling and aeroservoelasticity of generic hypersonic vehicles

· Aeroelasticity, aerothermoelasticticity and aeroservoelasticity of 3rd generation reusable launch vehicles.

· Aeroservoelasticity of HALE UAV.

· Computational aeroelasticity--CFD/CSD interface

· Computational fluid dynamics, compressible flow, and aerodynamics

· Control of structural vibration

· Innovative scaling laws for the study of aeroelastic and aeroservoelastic problems in compressible flow

· Nonlinear aeroelasticity.

· Piezocomposite actuators

· Shape memory alloys

· Smart structures

· Structural health monitoring for 3rd generation reusable launch vehicles

· Thermoelasticity, thermoelastic scaling and thermal structures for 3rd generation reusable launch vehicles reusable launch vehicles