Seminar: Educational and Research Opportunities in Aerospace and Computing - Oct. 1
David Darmofal
Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
& Smead Aerospace Byram Distinguished Visiting Professor
Friday, Oct. 1 | 12:00 P.M. | Hybrid: AERO 114 and Zoom
Abstract: Computation plays a critical role in aerospace systems from design through manufacturing to operation.Ìý In this talk, we will consider opportunities in research and education at the intersection of aerospace engineering and computing.Ìý In research, our focus will be on barriers which remain in applying computational science and engineering (CSE) methods to aerospace systems.Ìý As a specific example, we will considerÌý the use of high performance computing for the aerodynamic simulation of an airplane.Ìý Then, given the critical and increasing role of computing in aerospace, we discuss the objectives and possible approaches for computing education within aerospace engineering academic programs.Ìý More generally, given the ever-increasing intellectual breadth of aerospace engineering, we discuss the implications of this expansion on aerospace engineering programs of the future.
Bio: David Darmofal is the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and a member of the MIT Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory (ACDL) and the MIT Center for Computational Science & Engineering (CCSE).Ìý His principal areas of interest are computational methods for partial differential equations, especially fluid dynamics; and engineering education innovation.Ìý He has written approximately 80 technical publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.Ìý He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in fluid dynamics and computational methods.
He was honored with the MIT School of Engineering Bose Award for Junior Faculty in 2002, appointed as an MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow in 2004, and in 2012 received the MIT Bisplinghoff Fellow. Darmofal received an NSF CAREER Award in 1997 and is an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He received his BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan (1989), and SM (1991) and PhD (1993) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT.