EAM1 - Aircraft Design, Structures and Aerospace Systems
Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering 1 area details
Overview
The EAM1 area focuses on aircraft design, aerospace structures, and aerospace systems, providing comprehensive training in aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, and multidisciplinary optimization.
Research Areas
Aerodynamics, Aeroelasticity and Aeroacoustics
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Wind tunnel testing
- Aeroelastic analysis
- Noise prediction and control
Aerospace Systems
- Satellite systems design
- Space mission planning
- Orbital mechanics
- Spacecraft subsystems
Flight Mechanics and Control
- Aircraft performance analysis
- Flight control systems
- Autopilot design
- Stability and control
Advanced Composites and Aerospace Structures
- Composite material design
- Structural analysis
- Fatigue and damage tolerance
- Lightweight structures
Integrated Aircraft Design and Multidisciplinary Optimization (MDO)
- Conceptual design methods
- Optimization algorithms
- Design space exploration
- Trade-off studies
Representative
Professor: Flávio Luiz Cardoso Ribeiro
Permanent Faculty
Permanent Faculty
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- Nonlinear structural dynamics
- Uncertainty quantification
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- Structural composites
- Numerical simulation
- Structural optimization
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- CFD
- Flow control and estimation
- Reduced-order modelling
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- Aeroacoustics
- Hydrodynamic instability and turbulence
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- Flight dynamics and control
- Aeroelasticity
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- Modelling, identification, control and navigation of MAVs
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- Smart structures
- Vibration control
- Probabilistic structural analysis
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- Aeroacoustics
- Experimental fluid mechanics and aerodynamics
- Turbulence and coherent structures
- Flow analysis and control
- Heat transfer
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- Modelling, simulation and control of dynamic systems
- Flight dynamics
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- Aerospace structures
- Finite element method
- Composite materials
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- Mechatronics
- Modelling, identification and control of aerospace systems
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- Astrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics
- Nonlinear dynamics in orbital mechanics
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- Manufacturing and experimental characterization of composites
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- Aerospace structures
- Composite materials
- Aeroelasticity
- Multifunctional materials
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- Structural optimization
- Additive manufacturing
- Composite modelling
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- Unsteady aerodynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Flight dynamics
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- Spectral element methods for CFD
- Transition and turbulence simulation
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- Structural and multibody dynamics
- Probabilistic modelling
- Numerical simulation
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- Experimental aerodynamics
- Bluff bodies
- Aeroacoustics
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- Aerodynamics and CFD
- Transition and turbulence
- Heat transfer
- High-order methods
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- Aerodynamics
- Wind turbines and rotary wings
- Vortex stability
- Potential-flow methods
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- Astrodynamics
- Aerospace vehicle control
- Aerospace systems
Laboratories
- Aerodynamics Laboratory
- Structures Laboratory
- Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab
- Materials Testing Laboratory
Industry Partnerships
- Embraer
- Airbus
- Brazilian Space Agency (AEB)
- National Institute for Space Research (INPE)