Daytona Beach Campus - College of Engineering

Research in the College of Engineering

AEROPROPULSION SIMULATION



The areas of research encompass numerical simulation of propulsion systems noise, rocket flow and combustion process and gas turbine engines.

ACTIVITIES


Dr. EricPerrell

Research in fluid thermophysics and applications to aerospace propulsion and hypersonic aerodynamics, using an in-house, open-source, parallel computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code.

CURRENT PROGRAMS: Pulse Detonation Engine; Scramjet/Rocket Vehicle; Liquid Rocket Engine; Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster. Also rocket ground test facility development and design/fabrication/test of experimental rocket propulsion systems.

Dr. Vladimir Golubev:

Research focuses on computing unsteady flow in propulsion systems. Some of the recent application projects include unsteady aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of swirling cascade flows, unsteady rotor-stator interactions, nonlinear blade response, and aircraft engine jet noise predictions. Most recent research project deals with aeroacoustic shape optimization of the propulsion system components.

CURRENT PROGRAMS: Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., Upgrade of PACL Linux Research Computer Cluster

Dr. Magdy Attia:

Research areas are the aerodynamics and thermodynamics of Gas Turbine Engine Components. Currently graduate students are engaged in designing a highly loaded axial turbine stage for industrial applications, a high-pressure ratio 3-stage axial turbine, tip clearance effects on the design and off-design performance of transonic fan rotors. Undergraduate students are engaged in design modifications of a jet dragster using CATIA and 3D CFD.

CURRENT PROGRAMS: NSF (A Large Beowulf Cluster) with M. Hickey and C. Herbster