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Our work is organised around three main applications, from which we derive fundamental problems that help advancing our understanding of some basic physics and/or enabling new capabilities for next-generation solutions. Below you will find the list of current postgraduate research projects. For more information about each project, please go to the page of the leading investigator.

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Flexible aircraft dynamics

Flight simulation and load control on flexible aircraft

Developing multidisciplinary analysis and optimization tools able to capture all the relevant interactions between flight dynamics, aerodynamics, structural dynamics and control.

Wind Turbine Aeroelasticity

Wind turbine aeroelasticity

Assessing aeroelastic effects in long flexible composite blades, and integrating active load control mechanisms that improve performance and increase fatigue life.

Membrane Wings

Aeromechanics of small compliant fliers

Developing high-fidelity computational methods to investigate the dynamics of small air vehicles and to optimize their design and closed-loop operation for enhanced aerodynamic performance

 

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  • Wind turbine aeroelasticity
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