Stanford University Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
 

 

Affiliates Meeting

Tues. and Wed., April 29 and 30, 2003

 

PROGRAM OF THE 44th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY
IN AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS


W. F. Durand Building, Hoff Conference Room (Room 450)


Tuesday, April 29, 2003

 8:15

Welcome and Department Overview
      Prof. Brian Cantwell, Dept. Chair
      Prof. Steve Rock, Dir. Affiliates Program

 
 8:30 Designing UAV Collision-Avoidance Experimental Demonstration Rodney Teo Tomlin
 8:40 Designing Autonomous Aircraft at Stanford Jung Soon Jang Tomlin
 8:50 Questions and Answers  
 9:00 Guaranteeing Safety in GPS-Based Aircrfaft Landing Systems Alexander Mitelman Enge
 9:10 A Leapfrog Navigation System Guttorm Opshaug Enge
 9:15 Noise Floor Measurements within the GPS Band and the Impact of RF Radiators Juyong Do Enge
 9:25 Questions and Answers  
 9:35 Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Dynamic Networks Christopher Clark Rock
 9:45 Motion Planning for Climbing in Natural Terrain Tim Bretl Rock
 9:55 Robotics Technology for Extended Observation of Marine Life Aaron Plotnik Rock
10:05 Operation of Multiple Robots using a 3-D Graphical Interface Hank Jones Rock
10:15 Questions and Answers  
10:25 Break (20 minutes)  
10:45 Loran: An Alternate Navigation Systems in the GPS Era Lee Boyce Powell
10:55 Questions and Answers  
11:05 Low-Power Communicating in Sensor Network Ritesh Madan Lall
11:15 Optimal Communicating Controllers for Vehicles in Formation Michael Rotkowitz Lall
11:25 Questions and Answers  
11:35 NarcisSat: A one-kg. Picosatellite Kyle Doerksen
Mike Colonno

Twiggs

11:55 Questions and Answers  
12:05 Lunch  
 1:30 Durability Design for Composite Flywheel Rotors Cole Corbin Tsai
 1:40 Questions and Answers  
 1:50 Structural Health Monitoring Technology for Thermal Protection Panels Jinkyu Yang Chang
 2:00 Development of a Built-In Sensory System for Rapid Detection and Characterization of Automobile Impacts Andrew Kim Chang
 2:10 Crash Performance of Composite Structures for Automotive Applications Nathan Flesher Chang
 2:20 Questions and Answers  
 2:30 Design for Supersonic Natural Laminar Flow Peter Sturdza Kroo
 2:40 Questions and Answers  
 2:50 Fast-Burning Hybrid Fuel Paul Urbanczyk Cantwell
 3:00 Questions and Answers  
 3:10 Break (20 minutes)  
 3:30 Low-Frequency Isolation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) Wensheng Hua DeBra
 3:40 Quiet Hydraulic Actuators for LIGO Corwin Hardham DeBra
 3:50 Questions and Answers  
 4:00
Tour of Prof. Kroo's Aircraft Design Lab -   Durand 162 - Stefan Bieniawski
     

 

 

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

 8:30 Continental Breakfast with Students (Résumé book and fellowship students)    
 9:40 Automatic CAD-Based Geometry Regeneration for use in Multi-Disciplinary Optimization (MDO) Ryan Vartanian Alonso
 9:50 Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)-Based Coupling for Collaborative Design Optimization Patrick LeGresley Alonso
 10:00 Optimization of Multistage Coefficients for Preconditioned Explicit Multigrid Flow Solvers Kaveh Hosseini Alonso
 10:10 Questions and Answers  
 10:20 Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Wings Including Planform Variations Kasidit Leoviriyakit Jameson
 10:30 Computational Aerodynamic Analysis - Methods and Capabilities Georg May Jameson
 10:40 Aerodynamic Design using Unstructured Grids Sriram Shankaran Jameson
10:50 Questions and Answers  
11:00 Break (20 minutes)  
11:20 The Prediction of Jet Noise using Large Eddy Simulation Daniel Bodony Lele
11:30 Receptivity of Compressible Mixing Layers Matthew Barone Lele
11:40 Large Eddy Simulation of Stagnation Point Flow and Heat Transfer Andy Xiong Lele
11:50 Questions and Answers    
  ADJOURN    
       


 

Sally Gressens, gressens@stanford.edu, April, 2003
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