Presented By: Aerospace Engineering
Collegiate Professorship Recognition: Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
About this lecture:
Airplanes are essential in today's world, and their design is challenging. In this lecture, I present the developments in my research group that have made it possible to perform design optimization of aircraft based on computational models for aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion. The challenges addressed include handling a large number of design variables, robust and efficient large-scale simulations, effective geometry and mesh handling, and efficient discipline coupling. To tackle these issues, we combine gradient-based optimization algorithms with adjoint gradient computation. The methods we developed to tackle the aerostructural problem are generalized in NASA's OpenMDAO framework, an open-source framework for multidisciplinary analysis and optimization that can be used to solve more general problems. Life optimization remains an open question, but one of the keys is to create and maintain a community of people with shared goals.
About the speaker:
Joaquim R. R. A. Martins is the Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he heads the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Laboratory. His research group develops MDO methods and applies them to the design of aircraft and other engineering systems. He is a co-author of "Engineering Design Optimization", a textbook published by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Martins is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2009, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. From 2002, he held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Optimization. He received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London, with a British Aerospace Award. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ballhaus prize for best thesis in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received the Best Paper Award at AIAA Conferences five times. He has served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal, Optimization and Engineering, and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft.
About Prof. Pauline M. Sherman:
Pauline Sherman was the first female Professor of Aerospace Engineering at UM and the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Born in New York City in 1921 to parents who emigrated from Russia, Sherman received her B.S.E in engineering mechanics from U-M in 1952. In 1953 she earned an M.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also worked as a research engineer.
In 1956 Sherman returned to U-M as an associate research engineer at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and worked on problems in hypersonic flow and other related research. She joined the department as an assistant professor in 1960; becoming the first woman faculty member in the College of Engineering. Her research work was outstanding, colleagues say, and she was promoted to associate professor in 1963 and professor in 1971.
Sherman taught both theoretical and laboratory courses in aerodynamics and propulsion. She conducted fundamental research in jet noise, low-density flows, two-phase flows and especially hypersonic flows. She was supervisor for the design and construction of a hypersonic “hot-shot” wind tunnel. This involved a great deal of responsibility because of the high energies involved. At the time this wind tunnel was completed it was a unique facility in the country.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, Sherman presented lectures on hypersonic facilities in Europe on a NATO-AGARD lecture tour. She also consulted with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Lawrence Livermore Berkeley Laboratories. She also served on the Advisory Committee for Women in Science. She was elected to serve on Michigan Faculty Assembly, the Rackham Graduate School Science Board and the Faculty Senate Advisory Review Committee. After her retirement in 1987, Sherman did volunteer work for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Zoom Webinar - https://umich.zoom.us/j/96201299770
Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
About this lecture:
Airplanes are essential in today's world, and their design is challenging. In this lecture, I present the developments in my research group that have made it possible to perform design optimization of aircraft based on computational models for aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion. The challenges addressed include handling a large number of design variables, robust and efficient large-scale simulations, effective geometry and mesh handling, and efficient discipline coupling. To tackle these issues, we combine gradient-based optimization algorithms with adjoint gradient computation. The methods we developed to tackle the aerostructural problem are generalized in NASA's OpenMDAO framework, an open-source framework for multidisciplinary analysis and optimization that can be used to solve more general problems. Life optimization remains an open question, but one of the keys is to create and maintain a community of people with shared goals.
About the speaker:
Joaquim R. R. A. Martins is the Pauline M. Sherman Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he heads the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Laboratory. His research group develops MDO methods and applies them to the design of aircraft and other engineering systems. He is a co-author of "Engineering Design Optimization", a textbook published by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Martins is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 2009, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. From 2002, he held a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Optimization. He received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London, with a British Aerospace Award. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Ballhaus prize for best thesis in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received the Best Paper Award at AIAA Conferences five times. He has served as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal, Optimization and Engineering, and Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft.
About Prof. Pauline M. Sherman:
Pauline Sherman was the first female Professor of Aerospace Engineering at UM and the first woman to be appointed as a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Born in New York City in 1921 to parents who emigrated from Russia, Sherman received her B.S.E in engineering mechanics from U-M in 1952. In 1953 she earned an M.S.E. degree in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also worked as a research engineer.
In 1956 Sherman returned to U-M as an associate research engineer at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and worked on problems in hypersonic flow and other related research. She joined the department as an assistant professor in 1960; becoming the first woman faculty member in the College of Engineering. Her research work was outstanding, colleagues say, and she was promoted to associate professor in 1963 and professor in 1971.
Sherman taught both theoretical and laboratory courses in aerodynamics and propulsion. She conducted fundamental research in jet noise, low-density flows, two-phase flows and especially hypersonic flows. She was supervisor for the design and construction of a hypersonic “hot-shot” wind tunnel. This involved a great deal of responsibility because of the high energies involved. At the time this wind tunnel was completed it was a unique facility in the country.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, Sherman presented lectures on hypersonic facilities in Europe on a NATO-AGARD lecture tour. She also consulted with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Lawrence Livermore Berkeley Laboratories. She also served on the Advisory Committee for Women in Science. She was elected to serve on Michigan Faculty Assembly, the Rackham Graduate School Science Board and the Faculty Senate Advisory Review Committee. After her retirement in 1987, Sherman did volunteer work for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Zoom Webinar - https://umich.zoom.us/j/96201299770
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