The design of many engineering systems requires multiphysics simulations and can benefit
from design optimization. Two key challenges in multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) …

Some novel aircraft concepts use unconventional propulsion technologies to reduce energy
usage. Innovative technologies like distributed electric propulsion and boundary layer …

In the trend of increasing aircraft electrical power levels, future supersonic aircraft will have
an urgent need for multi-source, adaptive, and high-energy-efficient approach to electrical …

Interest in aircraft electrification and hydrogen fuel cells is driving demand for efficient waste
heat management systems. Ultimately, most of the heat must be rejected to the freestream …

Hybrid-and all-electric aircraft concepts use electric motors for power rather than a
conventional jet engine. Electric propulsors open the door to new ways to synergistically …

Multi-disciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization (MDAO/MADO/MDO) has established
itself as its own field of research over several decades of developments and innovations …

Body-Force Modeling methods have proven their capacity to faithfully reproduce both the
engine performance trends and the distortion transfer across the successive blade rows …

Interest in aircraft electrification and hydrogen fuel cells is driving demand for efficient waste
heat management systems. Ultimately, most of the heat must be rejected to the freestream …

Air transportation's quest for sustainability requires groundbreaking advancements in aircraft
design, particularly in the optimization of aircraft configurations, including aerodynamic …

Multidisciplinary models are composed of numerous implicit systems that are solved in a
coupled manner. A common challenge arises when an individual discipline's Jacobian is …