Seminar: Challenges in Computational Design of Aerospace Systems

Abstract:

The Air Force is exploring aircraft concepts reflecting higher degrees of integrated behavior.   As a consequence, there is desire to capture coupled physics earlier in the design process, and use the improved understanding to develop vehicle systems whose performance is improved by exploiting favorable couplings, and whose reliability is enhanced by mitigating unfavorable couplings.   Various topics will be discussed, including overview of analysis methods for design, research challenges, specific basic research examples of multidisciplinary design optimization, and possible future directions. 

Bio:

Dr. Philip Beran is a Principal Research Aerospace Engineer in the Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), is the Technical Advisor for the Design and Analysis Branch, and leads the Analysis Methods for Prototypes Team.  He received his PhD in Aeronautics from Caltech in 1989 and his BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University.  He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications.  His research spans topics in aeroelasticity, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural dynamics, multidisciplinary design optimization, bifurcation methods, reduced order modeling, and uncertainty quantification.

Hosted by Professor Meyer Benzakein