AE Seminar

Fluid flows in nature and engineering exhibit a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. This talk presents two problems across this range: compressible turbulence in channel flows and large-scale vorticity dynamics in the tropical atmosphere. The first part of the talk focuses on compressible turbulence, which plays a key role in many aerospace flows, […]

AI in general and Agentic AI Frameworks in particular have begun to appear in safety critical and mission critical application of autonomous systems. Assurance of their behavior lags behind in terms of principles, tools and engineering practice. In this presentation I will cover some emerging approaches that are both powerful and practical, and easily understood […]

As civil and military aircraft evolve toward increasingly complex designs and intelligent systems, understanding pilot–vehicle interactions and their impact on safety and performance remains essential. Rotorcraft shipboard landing is among the most demanding flight operations, requiring pilots to contend with degraded and rapidly changing visual cues, deck motion, and environmental disturbances, often resulting in elevated […]

Autonomous robots operating in challenging environments must make reliable decisions under geometric, dynamic, and environmental constraints. In such settings, motion planning plays a central role in enabling robots to move safely and efficiently through cluttered, narrow, disconnected or uncertain spaces, while balancing feasibility, robustness, and computational efficiency. This talk will focus on motion planning for […]

Autonomous navigation is becoming a critical capability for modern deep space exploration, planetary defense, and commercial space ventures. Traditional spacecraft navigation relies heavily on ground-based radio contact to collect two-way radiometric Doppler and range measurements. However, this structural dependency introduces significant communication latency and places a heavy burden on oversubscribed ground antenna networks. For cutting-edge […]

. Explosions in coal mines, metal-processing facilities, and other industrial settings occur with alarming regularity, while reactive metal particles are being considered for energy-storage and propulsion applications. Despite a long history of research and its importance to safety and propulsion applications, the physical mechanisms that govern the ignition, combustion, and detonation of reactive particles remain […]

Turbulence remains one of the outstanding problems of classical physics, and one that has challenged physicists and engineers alike for decades, even centuries. The fusion of classical approaches and tools of the modern day – theoretical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations, state-of-the-art experimental observations, data-driven methods and machine learning – has led to substantial progress […]

Hypersonic flight represents a major frontier in aerospace engineering, with its realization requiring a fundamental understanding of coupled chemical and fluid dynamic processes across multiple environments. Of particular importance are the reacting flows within the propulsion systems that enable sustained hypersonic flight and the high-temperature, chemically reacting flows that develop near vehicle surfaces at extreme […]

Magneto-active solids couple their mechanical response to externally applied magnetic fields, providing a promising route toward remotely tunable materials and structures. Such functionality is particularly attractive for aerospace applications involving vibration isolation, adaptive structures, sensing, and elastic-wave control. However, exploiting this coupling requires understanding a fundamental question: when does a magnetic field actually modify elastic-wave […]