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The role of surface waviness, arising from carbon composite manufacturing process, on aeroengine fan blade performance is characterized. The mechanisms for laminar-turbulent transition are assessed numerically and ...

This dissertation describes a new approach to integrate a hazard analysis into Safety Management Systems (SMS). This new engineering process guides safety managers and analysts in the identification of a migration toward ...

Modeling error and external disturbances can severely degrade the performance of Model Predictive Control (MPC) in real-world scenarios. Robust MPC (RMPC) addresses this limitation by optimizing over control policies but ...

Engineers and scientists are increasingly relying on high-fidelity numerical simulations. Within these simulations, mesh adaptation is useful for obtaining accurate predictions of an output of interest subject to a ...

Miniaturized microwave radiometers deployed on nanosatellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are now demonstrating the ability to provide science-quality weather measurements. For instance, the Micro-sized Microwave Atmospheric ...

When developing a space system, many properties of the design space are initially unknown and are discovered during the development process. Therefore, the problem exhibits deep uncertainty. Deep uncertainty refers to the ...

This thesis develops a physics-informed k-nearest neighbors approach, which draws from both physics-based modeling and data-driven machine learning. In doing so, our method achieves robustness and increased accuracy with ...

Ion electrospray propulsion is a cutting-edge micropropulsion technology that could revolutionize the capabilities of microsatellites. Ion electrospray thrusters could also be used on large spacecraft for precision attitude ...

Digital Thread is a data-driven architecture that links together information generated from across the product lifecycle. Though Digital Thread is gaining traction as a digital communication framework to streamline design, ...

Earth's atmosphere is optically dispersive and subjects astrometric observations from ground-based optical telescopes to systematic bias from differential color refraction (DCR). This bias is evident in Minor Planet Center ...