Aerospace Sciences

The aerospace sciences area emphasizes both the theoretical and experimental aspects of aeroacoustics, aero-optics, aerospace systems design, high-lift aerodynamics, low Reynolds-number aerodynamics, low-speed aerodynamics, particle dynamics, flow control, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows, and vortex aerodynamics.

Ongoing research projects include:

Accelerated Perturbation Techniques

Acoustics of Fans with Asymmetric Duct Geometry

Active Control of Tip Clearance Flows in Rotating Machinery

Active Separation Control in a Turbo-jet Low Pressure Turbine

Aeroacoustic Phased Array System

Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics of Nonuniform Flows

Aerodynamics of Micro-Air Vehicles

Aero-Optics

Aircraft Wake Dynamics

Airfoil Aerodynamics at Low Reynolds Numbers

Algorithms for Large Number of Equations

Delta Wing Aerodynamics

Development of a Microfabricated Sonic Anemometer

Direct and Inverse Problems in Hydrodynamics and Hydroacoustics

Direct Computation of Aerodynamically Generated Sound

Experimental Inversion and Simulation Techniques to Study Unsteady Aerodynamics and Propeller Blade Response to Inflow Distortion

Experimental Investigation of the Flow Field Physics of High-Lift Systems

Experimental Investigation of Unsteady Aerodynamics and the Sources of Propeller Noise

Flow Bifurcation and Nonlinear Flight Dynamics

High Lift Flow Physics

High Speed Swirling Flows

Leading Edge Vortex Dynamics

Low-Order Dynamical Systems Modeling of Turbulent Shear Flows

Noise Source Modeling and Control of Compressible Turbulent Jets

Trailing Edge Noise Research

Turbulence and Acoustics in Propeller Flows

Turbulence and Acoustics in Trailing Edge Flows

Turbulence in the Near Surface Region of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Turbulent Structure Modification by Streamlined Devices

Uncertainty: Methodology and Applications

Unsteady Forcing and Response in Turbomachines

Vorticity Correlations in Turbulent Flows

 

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