IDESIGN LAB

Our vision is to create revolutionary analysis, design, and optimization methods and tools to transform educational and research activities in academia and industry... Specifically, our research focuses on developing efficient algorithms and software, such as computational fluid dynamics and adjoint solvers, to understand the fundamental behavior of multidisciplinary engineering systems and to facilitate their design. The applications include aerodynamic, heat transfer, structural, and hydrodynamic analysis, design, and optimization for next-generation land, air, sea, and space vehicles, as well as improving long-range laser communication through deep turbulence... We have developed an efficient adjoint-based optimization framework (DAFoam) to handle general engineering design problems, as well as a massively-parallel direct numerical simulation solver (Hercules) to predict and understand small-scale turbulence characteristics under stably stratified conditions. Both of these codes..