Published: Jan 10, 2025 by Daning Huang
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At the AIAA SciTech 2025 conference, we contributed three papers over a range of research fields, with our collaborators. Here are the summaries:
A Parametric Study for the Effect of Morphing on Aerial Vehicles in Obstacle Avoidance
- Parker Smith and Daning Huang
- Though preliminary, this is the first research product from our recent NSF CAREER Award. In this paper, we studied the effects of morphing of an aerial vehicle in the scenarios of reachability and obstacle avoidance. It was found that considering morphing in an aerial vehicle via a global coordination over the entire flight mission (via trajectory optimization) can release the full potential of morphing, and enable drastically enhanced maneuverability when compared to the fixed-wing counterpart.
- Here are the slides for this paper.
Global Description of Flutter Dynamics via Koopman Theory
- Jiwoo Song and Daning Huang
- As a continuation from last year’s work, we developed a rigorous framework for globally linearizing nonlinear flutter dynamics using a General Koopman Bilinear Form, and show that using partial measurements of pre-flutter dynamics one can construct a dynamical model to predict the onset of flutter. Demonstrated on a high-speed panel flutter problem.
- Here are the slides for this paper.
- Elliot Kimmel, Daning Huang, Vansh Sharma, Jagmohan Singh, Venkatramanan Raman, Peretz P. Friedmann
- This is a major collaborative effort between Penn State and UMich. We focus on the shock wave/boundary layer interaction over a compression ramp in hypersonic flow, and this time we developed reduced-order model method capable of generating resolved turbulent boundary layer pressure fluctuation loads at a reduced computational cost for aeroelastic analysis.
Lastly, Dr. Huang was able to contribute to the Education Outreach event organized by the AIAA Structural Dynamics TC at the Walker Middle School. The teachers at the school were so kind and made a video for the event.