Projects

The following are our ongoing and past projects, click their titles for more details.

iDesign Lab Research projects:

• POSE: Phase I: Open Source Ecosystem for Large-scale Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (NSF-TI. 7/2025 to 6/2026)

• An Integrated Numerical and Experimental Study of Wind-Driven Water Film Flow Dynamics Pertinent to Wind Turbine Icing Phenomena (NSF-CBET. 12/2024 to 11/2027)

• High-fidelity Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Heat Exchangers for eVTOL Aircraft Thermal Management. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA-EPSCoR-R3. 8/2023 to 8/2025)

• Accelerating Scientific Discovery: A Toolset for Standardizing Data Collection and Machine Learning (DOE-Ames Lab. 10/2023 to 9/2025)

• Collaborative Research: Enabling Large-scale Multidisciplinary Design Optimization with Unsteady Simulations: A Hybrid Pseudo-spectral Approach (NSF-CMMI. 9/2022 to 8/2026)

• High-fidelity MDO considering propeller-wing interaction (Hyundai. 5/2021 to 5/2022)

Past projects:

• Multidisciplinary design optimization for sea, land, and air vehicles (6/2016 to 8/2020).

• High-fidelity optical turbulence simulation for long-range laser communication (1/2013 to 6/2016).

Research interests

• Multidisciplinary design optimization
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Aircraft and turbomachinery design
• Machine learning

Research collaborators (in alphabetical order):

• Anupam Sharma, Iowa State University
• Han Gao, Iowa State University
• Hui Hu, Iowa State University
• Leifur Leifsson, Purdue University
• John Hwang, UC San Diego
• Joaquim Martins, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Kevin Maki, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Sukanta Basu, Delft University of Technology