Welcome to the iDesign Lab!

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The iDesign Lab is part of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Iowa State University.

Our vision is to create revolutionary analysis, design, and optimization methods and tools to transform educational and research activities across 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. We have developed an efficient adjoint-based optimization framework (DAFoam) to address these engineering design challenges. In addition, we harness the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the speed, scalability, accuracy, and robustness of our tools and to streamline their integration into everyday engineering design workflows.

Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Department of Energy. See details of our research projects.