Aerospace

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis

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School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt Building South, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK
Interests: aerodynamic technologies; flow and flight control systems; shock physics; aerospace design and optimization; flow diagnostics
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Prof. Dr. Sergey Leonov

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Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 109 Hessert Lab, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Interests: experimental plasma aerodynamics; weakly ionized plasma generation; flow actuation by electrical discharges; plasma-assisted combustion; diagnostics of low-temperature plasma; hypersonics; aerothermodynamics; high-speed combustion
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Prof. Dr. Michael Schultz

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Institute of Flight Systems, Bundeswehr University Munich, 85577 Neubiberg, Germany
Interests: air transportation; data-driven and model-based environments; predictive analysis; integrated airspace and airport management
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Prof. Dr. Paolo Tortora

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: small satellites; innovative spacecraft subsystems including the ground segment; planetary exploration with particular reference to radio science experiments
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Prof. Dr. Fanghua Jiang

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School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: astrodynamics; orbit design and trajectory optimization for space exploration
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Prof. Dr. Carlos E.S. Cesnik

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, FXB 1320 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: computational and experimental aeroelasticity; aeroservoelasticity; structural dynamics; model reduction; structural mechanics

Prof. Dr. Earl H. Dowell

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Interests: acoustics; aeroelasticity; nonlinear dynamics; structural dynamics; unsteady aerodynamics

Prof. Dr. Michael I. Friswell

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea SA1 8EN, UK
Interests: morphing aircraft; structural dynamics; structural health monitoring; rotordynamics; smart structures; nonlinear dynamics
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Prof. Dr. Song Fu

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School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: turbulence modeling; computational fluid dynamics; mechanical engineering; aerodynamics; fluid mechanics
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Prof. Dr. Jae-Hung Han

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Korea
Interests: smart structures; vibration control; space structures; flapping MAV

Prof. Dr. Sergey B. Leonov

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Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 109 Hessert Lab, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Interests: experimental plasma aerodynamics; weakly ionized plasma generation; flow actuation by electrical discharges; plasma-assisted combustion; diagnostics of low-temperature plasma; hypersonics; aerothermodynamics; high-speed combustion
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Prof. Dr. Achille Messac

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA
Interests: multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO); renewable energy; wind farms design and optimization; product family; robust design; multiobjective optimization; system optimization; structural dynamics; response surface; model reduction; space structures

Prof. Dr. Elaine S. Oran

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: reactive flows; fluid dynamics; turbulence in reacting and nonreacting flows; computational fluid dynamics; chemically reactive flows; dynamics of flames, deflagrations, and detonations in gases; physics and chemistry of energetic materials; shocks and shock interactions in gases and condensed phases; incompressible, and nonequilibrium flows; astrophysical phenomena, particularly supernovae and jets; computations of rarefied gas flow, such as reentry flows; microdynamical flows; biological flows in complex networks; micro fluidics for design of biosensors; computational sciences and numerical analysis; high-performance computing and parallel architectures; molecular dynamics of multiphase surface

Prof. Dr. Jacques Periaux

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Full Research Professor on Numerical Methods in Engineering at CIMNE/UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: CFD modeling; simulation; optimisation; control and design with applications to Aeronautics

Prof. Dr. Xiaolin Zhong

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: computational fluid dynamics; hypersonic flows; development of new very high-order numerical methods; numerical simulation of hypersonic boundary layer receptivity, stability, and transition; numerical simulation of real-gas hypersonic flow; development of high-order immersed interface method for flow simulations; DNS of strong shock interaction with turbulence; numerical simulation studies of wave energy harvesting devices