PhD in Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering

High-fidelity URANS / hybrid RANS-LES of transonic buffet on transport-aircraft wings using ANSYS Fluent, with experimental correlation and buffet-onset criteria relevant to civil aviation certification studies.

Transient CFD of multi-rotor UAV configurations including propeller–wing interference, using Fluent sliding-mesh / overset methods and Ffowcs-Williams–Hawkings acoustic analogy for far-field noise.

Multi-element high-lift aerodynamics under clean and iced conditions using ANSYS FENSAP-ICE / Fluent, assessing lift degradation and certification implications for regional aircraft.

Species-transport and combustion modelling of gas-turbine combustors and afterburners in ANSYS Fluent with detailed chemistry and conjugate heat-transfer for military and civil propulsion research.

Wall-resolved / wall-modelled LES of static and dynamic stall on airfoils using OpenFOAM, including active flow-control strategies (synthetic jets, plasma actuators) for performance recovery.

OpenFOAM simulation of neutral / stable ABL inflow and multi-turbine wake interaction for airborne wind-energy and urban-air-mobility siting studies.

Extension of OpenFOAM with arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) and six-DoF solvers for tightly coupled fluid–structure interaction of flexible wings and rotor blades.

Shock-train, boundary-layer interaction and unstart prediction in hypersonic intakes using density-based OpenFOAM solvers with high-temperature gas models.

Discrete-adjoint shape optimisation of transport and UAV wings in SU2 for multi-point drag reduction, including geometric constraints and free-form deformation parameterisation used at Stanford and TU Delft.

Coupled aerodynamic–structural adjoint optimisation of flexible wings in SU2 with continuum sensitivity analysis, targeting weight and fuel-burn trade-offs for next-generation aircraft.

Time-accurate and harmonic-balance adjoint methods in SU2 applied to propeller and rotor-blade design for efficiency and noise reduction in urban air mobility vehicles.

Non-intrusive polynomial chaos and adjoint-based robust optimisation frameworks built on SU2 for design under manufacturing and operational uncertainty.

High-fidelity 6-DoF nonlinear models of fixed-wing and multi-rotor vehicles in MATLAB/Simulink, with system-identification from flight-test or CFD-derived aerodynamic databases.

Model-reference adaptive control, L1 adaptive control and fault-tolerant architectures implemented in Simulink for fixed-wing and VTOL UAVs under actuator and sensor failures.

State-space aeroelastic models coupling structural modes with unsteady aerodynamics (Roger, RFA) in MATLAB; design of active flutter-suppression controllers for flexible wings.

Optimal-control and convex-optimisation based guidance algorithms in MATLAB for atmospheric re-entry and powered landing of reusable stages, with Monte-Carlo robustness assessment.

Conjugate heat-transfer and thermoelastic analysis of sharp leading edges and thermal-protection systems in COMSOL, including material ablation and radiation boundary conditions.

Fully coupled fluid–structure–piezoelectric modelling of energy-harvesting skins on UAV wings for self-powered sensors and structural-health monitoring.

Transient electromagnetic and thermal response of composite airframes to lightning attachment using COMSOL AC/DC and Heat Transfer modules, supporting certification studies.

Multiphysics simulation of lithium-ion battery packs under high-discharge rates, including cooling-channel design and thermal-runaway propagation for hybrid-electric propulsion research.

Integrated aero-propulsive-structural optimisation frameworks combining CFD (SU2/OpenFOAM), structural FEM and battery models for urban air mobility vehicle sizing and trade studies.

Physics-informed neural networks and reduced-order models coupled with high-fidelity FEM/CFD for real-time digital twins of wing and fuselage structures under operational loads.

Surrogate modelling and multi-fidelity Gaussian-process / neural-network frameworks trained on ANSYS/OpenFOAM/SU2 databases for rapid aerodynamic design exploration.

Near-field CFD and far-field boom propagation analysis using SU2/ANSYS for shaped-sonic-boom configurations, supporting international low-boom research programmes.