Aerospace Engineering Education

This work is an interactive, computational platform for aircraft design designed to be used as an instructional tool: AeroFuse.

Used at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Imperial College London.
Implemented geometry, aerodynamics (vortex-lattice), structures (beam-element), propulsion (blade-element momentum theory), and flight dynamics (rigid-body integrators) for coupled analyses.
Enabled adjoint-based solutions of inverse and optimization problems between disciplines with automatic differentiation.

eXtended Design Structure Matrix of features in AeroFuse

AeroFuse couples the disciplinary solvers into a single differentiable model, so complete aircraft configurations can be analyzed and optimized from one interface for conceptual and preliminary design.

Coupled aerostructural optimization of an aircraft with a T-tail configuration

The platform is open source and documented for classroom use:

Repository: github.com/GodotMisogi/AeroFuse.jl
Documentation: godotmisogi.github.io/AeroFuse.jl/stable

Publications

Arjit Seth, Stephane Redonnet, and Rhea P. Liem. “MADE: A Multidisciplinary Computational Framework for Aerospace Engineering Education”. IEEE Transactions on Education 66.6 (2023), pp. 622–631. doi:10.1109/TE.2023.3281825
Arjit Seth and Rhea Liem. AeroMDAO — A Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design Platform for Education. Teaching and Learning Symposium, Center for Education Innovation, HKUST, June 2022. Talk

Aerospace Engineering Education — AeroFuse

A computational framework to teach aerospace engineering with multidisciplinary design optimization.

Publications