Projects
Aeroelastic Phenomena of Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Wingtip Devices in Transonic and Supersonic Flight
The addition of nonplanar wingtip devices introduces new components of high-intensity aerodynamic loading on wing structures. The preliminary work for an analysis of the effect of both a wingtip extension and a blended winglet on the aeroelastic response of a swept wing in high speed flight is presented. This presentation was given as a progress update after the first semester of my master's thesis work.
Aeroelastic Phenomena of Fixed-Wing Aircraft in Transonic and Supersonic Flight Regimes
This work was presented at the 2022 Allen E. Paulson CEC Student Research Symposium to university faculty and industry representatives. It contains experimental validation for the CFD model and results from 70 dynamic, fully-coupled aeroelastic analyses, including instances of self-oscillation.
The Mach Number’s Effect on the Aeroelastic Response of Aircraft Wings
An increase in the freestream Mach number causes an amplification of induced stress in an aircraft's wing structure. This presentation was shown at the 2021 Allen E. Paulson CEC Student Research Symposium and showcases the use of an FEA solver and CFD solver tethered together to calculate the structural response of flow field of a wing being deformed by external flow.
Aeroelastic Response of Traditional and Swept Grid Fin Control Surfaces in High Mach Number Flight
Grid fin stabilizers are used to steer, slow, and guide projectile bodies (particularly reusable launch vehicles and missiles) as they descend. This requires grid fins to be able to operate in a wide range of flow regimes; a rocket booster returning will pass through hypersonic, supersonic, transonic, and subsonic flow as is returns to the Earth's surface. This course project examined the structural response of two configurations of grid fin stabilizers in high Mach number flight.