Aerospace Systems
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Research Showcase: Professor Gary Balas is part of a group studying super cavitation, where an object traveling at very high speeds in liquids generates water vapor bubbles on the corner of sharp contours due to pressure gradients that result in flow separation. This is often the case if a propeller spins fast enough, the surrounding liquid is vaporized due to the decrease in pressure generating cavitation bubbles. As pressure surrounding the liquid decreases, the bubbles collapse, which may cause damage to machinery. Click here for more info. |
The faculty conducting research in aerospace systems are:
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Gary J.
Balas Ph.D, Aeronautics, Caltech |
Aerospace control systems: experimental and theoretical |
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William
L. Garrard Ph.D., Engineering Mech., University of Texas-Austin |
Dynamics and control of aerospace vehicles; stability and control of nonlinear systems; control of gas turbines; parachute dynamics. |
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Demoz Gebre-Egziabher Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University. |
Sensor fusion. Design of multi-sensor systems for navigation, guidance and control of aerospace vehicles. Global Position System (GPS). Inertial navigation. GPS-based precision landing systems. |
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Bernard
Mettler Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. |
Autonomous guidance and control; trajectory planning; automated maneuvering; environment and task representation; system identification modelling. |
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Yiyuan
Zhao Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University |
Guidance/control; optimization; dynamics; air-traffic management; rotorcraft flight trajectories |
- Research in Aerospace Systems: Summary of current projects.
Projects with web pages are listed below:
Y. Zhao
G. Balas
UAV labControl System and Dynamical Systems Program
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