50th Dayton-Cincinnati
Aerospace Sciences Symposium

Program-at-a-glance

Room 116 119 120 127 131 133 171
Time SESSION 1

Aerospace Vehicle Design

Chair: Timothy Takahashi
AFIT
SESSION 2

Thermal Protection

Chair: Naibo Jiang
SE
SESSION 3

Combustion

Chair: Taber Wanstall
UD
SESSION 4

Space Systems

Chair: Yashvi Srivastava
HSEO
SESSION 5

Composite Materials

Chair: Anthony Palazotto
AFIT
SESSION 6

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Chair: James Rutledge
AFIT
SESSION 7

Machine Learning for Aerospace Applications

Chair: Karen Demille
AFRL
8:20 AM 50DCASS-002
Multi-Fidelity Aerostructural Optimization of ESAV including Flutter Constraints

Markus Rumpfkeil - UD
Phil Beran - AFRL
50DCASS-004
Uncertainty Propagation in Transient Heat Transfer from an Extended Surface

Edwin Forster - AFRL
Rama Gorla - AFIT
50DCASS-027
Near Lean Blowout Behavior in Lean Direct Injection Nozzle

Shyam Murali - UC
Yuvi Nanda, Tharun Reddy, Grace Fischer, Kranthi Yellugari - UC

Dr. Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-013
Modeling, Simulation, and Design Optimization of Space Mobility and Logistics Architectures

Hunter Rausch - AFIT
50DCASS-023
Experimental Characterization of Bearing Fatigue of Fiber Metal Laminate Without Film Adhesive

Matthew Fadden - AFIT
John Brewer - AFIT

Michael Gran - AFRL
50DCASS-067
Development of a Polar Invariant Map for Turbulence Modeling

James Wnek - WSU
Christopher Schrock - AFRL

Eric Wolf - OAI

Mitch Wolff - WSU
50DCASS-050
Accelerated and Confidence-based Machine Learning with Dimension Reduction via Global Sensitivity Analysis for Conceptual Aerospace Vehicle Design

Harok Bae - WSU
Atticus Beachy - AFIT

Jose A. Camberos - AFIT

Ramana V. Grandhi - AFIT

Jonathan Boston - AFRL
8:40 AM 50DCASS-072
Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset

Michael Foster - UD
Jessica DeMoor - UD

Sidaard Gunasekaran - UD

Jielong Cai - UD
50DCASS-035
Characterizing the Wavelength and Angular Dependence of Radiation Properties in TPS Materials

Yejajul Hakim - UKY
Ahmed H. Yassin - UKY

Ayan Banerjee - UKY

Savio J. Poovathingal - UKY

Michael W. Renfro - UKY
50DCASS-037
BOS Analysis of TARS Combustor

Grace Fischer - UC
Ephraim Gutmark - UC

Shyam Murali - UC

Yuvi Nanda - UC

Tharun Reddy - UC
50DCASS-015
Launching a Deputy to a Target Area From a High Degrees-of-Freedom Space Manipulator on a Free-Floating Base

Sarah Hudson - UC
Diego Quevedo - UC

Donghoon Kim - UC
50DCASS-076
Fatigue Behavior of two Advanced C/SiC Composites at 1200 C

Conner Adams - AFIT
M. B. Ruggles-Wrenn - AFIT
50DCASS-001
Numerical Simulation of Circulation Control For a Wing Section Using a Coanda Jet

Donald Rizzetta - AFRL
Daniel Garmann - AFRL
50DCASS-014
Multi-Fidelity Machine Learning Modeling for Aerodynamic Response Prediction of Aerospace Vehicles

Ethan Jackman - AFIT
Jose Camberos - AFIT

Harok Bae - WSU
9:00 AM 50DCASS-056
Aerospace Vehicle Conceptual Design Trade Studies Using ADAPT

Bryce Helmer - AFIT
Samuel C. Atchison - AFIT

Jose A. Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-043
Fuel Pump Power and Thermal Conceptual Design Investigation for a High Speed Vehicle

Jacob Jadischke - AC
Jose Camberos - AFIT

Ramana Grandhi - AFIT

Danielle Hollon - AFRL

Mitch Wolff - WSU
50DCASS-059
Altitude System Design for Two-stroke Engines Between 50-200 cc

Jacob L. Ahles - AFIT
Marc Polanka - AFIT

Joseph K. Ausserer - AFIT

Thomas C. Balaj - AFIT

Jacob A. Baranski - ISSI
50DCASS-017
Design and Evaluation of a Deployment Mechanism for a Space-Based Origami Mirror in CubeSat Missions

Arturo Luna - AFIT
Robert Bettinger - AFIT
50DCASS-084
Fatigue Behavior af an Advanced SiC/SiC Composite with an Array of Small Cooling Holes at 1200 C

Tess Panchyshyn - AFIT
M. B. Ruggles-Wrenn - AFIT
50DCASS-095
Enhancing RANS Turbulence Predictions for 3D Automotive Flows Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter and Tensor Basis Neural Network

Tarun Kakarlamudi - OSU
Dr. Lian Duan - OSU
50DCASS-038
Dreaming Falcon: Advanced Drone Control using Physics-Informed Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Eashan Vytla - OSU
Bhavanishankar Kalavakolanu - OSU

Andrew Perrault - OSU

Matthew McCrink - OSU
9:20 AM 50DCASS-003
Development of a High-Speed Vehicle Conceptual Design Process using ADAPT Framework

Samuel Atchison - AC
Matthew Madayag - AFIT

Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-098
Implementation of Genetic Algorithms to Model the Modes of Heat Transfer in Fibrous Insulation Materials

James Senig - UKY
John F. Maddox - UKY
50DCASS-040
Nonlinear behavior of thermoacoustic instabilities in swirl-stabilized combustor

Yuvi Nanda - UC
Shyam Muralidharan - UC

Tharun Reddy - UC

Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-073
Universal Model Based Systems Engineering Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Mission Planner

Thomas Kelly - AFIT
Curtis, David H. - AFIT

Stern, Jordan L. - AFIT
50DCASS-087
Mechanical Properties of Low Dimensional Materials Based Nanocomposites

Arun Nair - AFIT
Abigail Eaton - AC
50DCASS-101
Computational Fluid Dynamics for Distributed Lift Configurations

Ainsley Rousseau - OSU
Scott Sherer - AFRL

Michael Mongin - AFRL

Aaron Altman - AFRL
50DCASS-041
Online Identification of Free-Floating Dual-Arm Space Robot Dynamics With Interpretable Physics Informed Machine Learning

Aaron Borger - UC
Donghoon Kim - UC
9:40 AM 50DCASS-079
On coupling approaches for mixed-fidelity aeropropulsive analysis and optimization

Neal Novotny - AFRL
Jan Kiviaho - UDRI
50DCASS-065
Predictive Aeroheating for Conceptual Vehicle Design and Analysis

Amy Cinnamon - AFIT
Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-044
Simultaneous Z-type Schlieren and OH Chemiluminescence for the Analysis of Combustion Dynamics

Tharun Srinivas Karnam Reddy - UC
Ephraim J. Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-090
Satellite Simulation and Association Utilizing Machine Learning for Congested Space

Mathew Core - AFIT
Lt Col Rachel M. Derbis - AFIT

Maj Timothy I. Machin - AFIT

David W. Meyer - AFIT
50DCASS-088
Deformation of Composite Plates Under High Strain Rates

Arun Nair - AFIT
Jackson King - AFIT

Wyatt Hodson - AFIT

John Hansen - AFIT
50DCASS-082
Implicit Large Eddy Simulations of F-BoLT Boundary Layer Transition

Tim Leger - OAI
50DCASS-074
Using Unsupervised Machine Learning to Detect Flow Separation on Low-Pressure Turbine Blades

Aaron Suter - AFRL
Christopher Marks - AFRL

Jared Kerestes - AFRL

Mitch Wolff - WSU
10:00 AM Break


Room 116 119 120 127 131
Time SESSION 8

Flight Dynamics & Controls

Chair: Donald Rizzetta
AFRL
SESSION 9

Fluid Dynamics

Chair: Rama Gorla
AFIT
SESSION 10

Imaging & Diagnostics

Chair: Joseph Miller
CDU
SESSION 11

Digital Engineering 1

Chair: Markus Rumpfkeil
UD
SESSION 12

Additively Manufactured Structures

Chair: Donghoon Kim
UC
10:20 AM 50DCASS-028
Aerospace Vehicle Trajectory Analysis Using Stability & Controllability Bracketed Analysis

Rhonin Edwards - AFIT
Will Lorenzo - AFIT

Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-053
Characterizing the Dynamics of a Spanwise Homogenous Shock Train using Large Eddy Simulation

Jack Sullivan - OSU
Datta V. Gaitonde - OSU
  50DCASS-054
Introduction to AIAA's Digital Engineering Integration Committee

Rick Graves - AFRL
50DCASS-012
Mechanical Response of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Gyroid Structures Under Combined Loading

Capt Jay B. Patel - AFIT
Maj John S. Brewer - AFIT

Elizabeth K. Bartlett - AFRL
10:40 AM 50DCASS-029
Aircraft Design, Analysis, Performance, and Trade Space (ADAPT) Plug-In for Stability & Controllability

Luis Javier Silva-gomez - AFIT
Will Lorenzo - AFIT

Samuel Atchison - AFIT

Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-075
Experimental Investigation of PRANDTL-D3C Near-Wake

Julian Pabon - UD
Sidaard Gunasekaran - UD

Grace Shreyer - UD

Michael Mongin - AFRL

Aaron Altman - AFRL
  50DCASS-089
Leveraging MBSE for Integration and Stakeholder Engagement in Autonomous Aerial Refueling Flight Tests

Kevin Keth - AFIT
David R. Jacques - AFIT
50DCASS-048
Selective Laser Sintering Based Additive Manufacturing of Nylon 12 Novel Hybrid Lattice Structures for Improved Compressive Strength

Ahkar Min Thant - MU
Jianfeng Ma - SLU

Muhammad P. Jahan - MU
11:00 AM 50DCASS-063
X-15 High Fidelity Stability and Control Study

Hannes Rogers - AFIT
Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-093
Wake Characteristics of Non-Elliptical Lift Distribution

Charles Cain - UD
Sidaard Gunasekaran - UD
50DCASS-071
Evolution of H-TALIF Signal After Nanosecond Discharges in Methane-Air Mixtures

Katherine Opacich - NRC
Timothy M. Ombrello, Campbell D. Carter - AFRL

Joseph K. Lefkowitz -

Matthew K. Hay, Waruna D. Kulatilaka - TAMU
50DCASS-055
Digital Materiel Management for a Bio-Inspired Rotating Empennage Aircraft

Rick Graves - AFRL
50DCASS-060
Evaluation of Additive Manufactured GRX-810 Alloys in the AFIT Burner Rig Facility

Marlee Ruiz - AFIT
Marc Polanka - AFIT

Matthew R. Gazella - AFIT

Ryan A. Kemnitz - AFIT
11:20 AM Break
11:30 AM Room 150 - Frederick Smith Auditorium

Welcome & Announcements
Dr. José Camberos, 50th DCASS Executive Chair

AIAA CEO Remarks
Mr. Clay Mowry

Keynote Address
The Evolution of Hypersonic Flight Over Seven Decades
Dr. Kevin Bowcutt - Senior Technical Fellow & Chief Scientist of Hypersonics at Boeing
12:40 PM Lunch Break


Room 116 119 120 127 131 133
Time SESSION 13

Acoustics

Chair: Carl Tilmann
AFRL
SESSION 14

Fluid Dynamics of Jets & Sprays

Chair: Marc Polanka
AFIT
SESSION 15

High Speed Vehicle Modeling

Chair: John Brewer
AFIT
SESSION 16

Space Systems & Robotics

Chair: Robert Bettinger
AFIT
SESSION 17

Materials & Structures 1

Chair: Samuel Atchison
AC
SESSION 18

Emerging Machine Learning Applications

Chair: Gregory Roth
AFRL
1:40 PM 50DCASS-021
Aerodynamic Valve Integration and Performance Analysis in Valveless Pulsejets

Remya Nair - UC
Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-091
Experimental Setup for a Closed-Loop Controlled Active Flow Control Jet

Julian Pabon - UD
Sidaard Gunasekaran - UD

Michael Mongin - AFRL
50DCASS-103
Multifidelity Surrogate Modeling of a Generic Hypersonic Vehicle

Evan Burke - AFRL
Markus Rumpfkeil - UD
50DCASS-011
Bio-Inspired Motion Strategies for Robotic Arm-Equipped Satellites Using Computer Vision and Animal Pose Estimation

Alhim Adonai Vera Gonzalez - UC
Daegyun Choi - UC

Donghoon Kim - UC
50DCASS-020
Finite Element Modeling of a Taylor Test to Determine Material Properties

Armando Deleon - WSU
Anthony N. Palazotto - WSU
50DCASS-058
Isotopic Analysis of Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Self-Reversal Isotopic Spectrometry (LIBRIS) and Machine Learning

Madison Moran - AFIT
Ashwin Rao - AFRL

Anil Patnaik - AFIT
2:00 PM 50DCASS-042
Use of Sweeping Jet Actuator for Supersonic Jet Noise Reduction

Kaurab Gautam - UC
Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-092
Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake using Spray Patternator

Brock Greenwood - UD
Abdul Khan - UD

Sidaard Gunasekaran - UD
50DCASS-051
Automating Geometry Generation, Meshing, and Aerodynamic Modeling

Christopher Humphrey - UC
Jose Camberos - AFIT
50DCASS-016
Dynamic Modeling and Control of a High Degrees-of-Freedom Free-Flying Space Manipulator System Performing Robot-to-Robot Handover

Diego Quevedo - UC
Sarah Hudson - UC

Aaron Borger - UC

Donghoon Kim - UC
50DCASS-031
Evaluating Wave Propagation using Johnson-Cook Equation

Katie Bruggeman - WSU
Anthony Palazotto - AFIT

Dan Young - WSU
50DCASS-061
A Geometrically Flexible Machine Learning Approach to Predict Stress Intensity Factors for Computationally Efficient Fatigue Analysis

Christopher Turner - UC
Karen DeMille - AFRL
2:20 PM 50DCASS-049
Exploration of Slot Injection for Noise Reduction on 2D-CD Style Nozzles

James Cramer - UC
Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-094
Effects of a Pulsed Jet in Crossflow on Flow Characteristics

Laura Senkar - UC
Daniel Cuppoletti - UC
50DCASS-099
Model Based System Engineering Framework Applied to a Generic Hypersonic Vehicle

Charles Lampp - AFIT
Jose Camberos - AFIT

David Jacques - AFIT
50DCASS-019
A Modular Robotic Testbed for In-Space Mission Simulation

Anirudh Chhabra - UC
Aaron Borger - UC

Donghoon Kim - UC
50DCASS-086
Elastic Wave Propagation in Bio-inspired Structures

Arun Nair - AFIT
Joshua DeMorris - AFIT

Carson Willey - AFRL

Vincent Chen - AFRL

Abigail Juhl - AFRL
50DCASS-068
Testing the Cognitive Predictive Performance Equation Model on a Duolingo Dataset

Trevor Cross - AFIT
Aihua Wood - AFIT
2:40 PM 50DCASS-070
The Impact of Upstream Flow Variations on Acoustic Behavior in overexpanded nozzle

Arshad Mohammed - UC
Gautam Kaurab - UC

Ephraim Gutmark - UC
    50DCASS-032
Exploring Dynamic Coupling in Space Manipulator System Using Nonlinear Correlation Tools

Gargi Das - UC
Daegyun Choi - UC

Donghoon Kim - UC
  50DCASS-100
Hyperparameter Optimization for Training Multi-fidelity Robust Physics Informed Neural Networks

Mark Bergman - WSU
Harok Bae - WSU
3:00 PM Break


Room 116 119 120 127 131 133
Time SESSION 19

High School Scholars

Chair: Anil Patnaik
AFIT
SESSION 20

Thermal Management

Chair: Christopher Ruscher
SE
SESSION 21

Rotating Detonation Combustors

Chair: Troy Hoeger
AFLCMC
SESSION 22

Spaceflight Dynamics & Controls

Chair: Rachel Derbis
AFIT
SESSION 23

Materials & Structures 2

Chair: Arun Nair
AFIT
SESSION 24

Digital Engineering 2

Chair: Rick Graves
AFRL
3:20 PM 50DCASS-047
Evaluation and Comparison of Large Language Models

Isaiah Goble - SBHS
Kara Combs - AFRL
50DCASS-026
A Nitinol-Actuated Passive Dynamic Radiator for Spacecraft Electronic Component Cooling

Anthony Lococo - UD
Dr. Rydge Mulford - UD

Abigail Boyer - UD

Ashley Anderson - UD

Andrew Gabriel - UD
50DCASS-024
Analysis of Rotating Detonation Wave Interaction with Reactive Core Flow

Tyler Pritschau - UC
Rachel Wiggins - UC

Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-006
Poincare Mapping and Trajectory Analysis in the Circular Restricted N-Body Problem (CRNBP) for the Jovian, Saturnian, and Plutonian Systems

Annika Gilliam - AFIT
Robert Bettinger - AFIT
50DCASS-018
Design of a Force Transmission System Within a Real-Time Apogee Control System on a High-Powered Model Rocket.

Seth Mitchell - CDU
Joseph Copeland, Daniel Hogsed Keneth Lee III, Jackson Maley, Grant Parker, Elisa Schmitt, Joseph Miller, and Thomas Ward - CDU
50DCASS-064
Implementation of a Digital Repository for Vehicle Analysis, Design, and Decision Making

Jack Bruer - AFIT
Samuel C. Atchison - AFIT

Jose A. Camberos - AFIT
3:40 PM 50DCASS-069
On the Frequency Assignment of Packet Radio Networks

Grant Zhou - OWHS
50DCASS-085
Conformal Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Heat Exchanger Design and Evaluation

Tanner Barber - AFIT
John Brewer - AFIT
50DCASS-062
Thin Filament Pyrometry to Measure Temperature in a Rotating Detonation Engine

Theodore B. Guetig - AFIT
Marc Polanka - AFIT

Larry P. Goss - ISSI

Brian C. Sell - ISSI
50DCASS-007
6DOF Reentry Reachability Optimization of a Vehicle Resembling SpaceX's Starship

Emma Webb - AFIT
Robert A. Bettinger - AFIT
50DCASS-045
Experimental and Simulation Analysis of the Mechanical Properties of 3D Printed Octet Lattice Structures

Lucas Stevenson - UKY
Xingsheng Sun - UKY
50DCASS-066
Variable-Fidelity Analysis of Aerothermal Effects on a Generic Aerospace Vehicle

Andrew Setzer - AFIT
Jose A. Camberos - AFIT
4:00 PM 50DCASS-083
Constructing an Affordable Homemade Wind Tunnel

Audrey Flaute - AHS
50DCASS-005
Investigation of the Operating Mechanism of the Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube

Matthew N. Fuqua - AFLCMC
James Rutledge - AFIT
50DCASS-034
Effects of Fuel-Throttling on the Operation of a Flow-Through Rotating Detonation Engine

Anthony Centofanti - UC
Peter Glaubitz - UC

Tyler Pritschau - UC

Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-009
Adaptive Online Optimization-Based Control for Soft-Landing Maneuvers on Asteroids: Performance and Safety Assurance Despite Gravity Field Uncertainty

Felipe Arenas Uribe - UKY
T. Michael Seigler - UKY

Jesse B. Hoagg - UKY
50DCASS-080
Gradient-based aeroelastic optimization of a generic flying wing model

Neal Novotny - AFRL
David Sandler - UDRI

Nathan Wukie - AFRL
50DCASS-102
Uncertainty Propagation for a Hypersonic Vehicle through a Model Validation Hierarchy Framework

Alexander Wade - CFD
Andrew Kaminsky - CFD

Alexander Schreiner - CFD
4:20 PM   50DCASS-008
Adiabatic and Overall Effectiveness Superposition Theory for Upstream Phantom Cooling on a Film Cooled Leading Edge

Nathaniel Stout - AFIT
James Rutledge - AFIT
50DCASS-039
Unwrapped Detonation Wave Structure from Thermal Imaging

Peter Glaubitz - UC
Tyler Pritschau - UC

Ephraim Gutmark - UC
50DCASS-036
A Bio-Inspired Fuzzy-Driven Control Approach for Real-Time Autonomous Spacecraft Inspection

Daegyun Choi - UC
Donghoon Kim - UC
   
4:40 PM   50DCASS-077
CFD Analysis of a TPMS-Based Conformal Heat Exchanger

Nathan Lewan - WSU
Mitch Wolff - WSU
50DCASS-097
CFD Analysis of Fuel Mixing in a Flow-Through Rotating Detonation Combustor

Bret Lane - UC
Ephraim J. Gutmark - UC
     
5:00 PM Adjurn




Abbreviations:

AC = AFIT Contractor
AFIT = Air Force Institute of Technology
AFLCMC = Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
AFRL = Air Force Research Laboratory
AHS = Anna High School
CDU = Cedarville University
CFD = CFD Research Corporation
HSEO = Helium SEO
ISSI = Innovative Scientific Solutions Inc.
MU = Miami University
NRC = National Research Council
OAI = Ohio Aerospace Institute
OSU = The Ohio State University
OWHS = Oakwood High School
SBHS = Stebbins High School
SE = Spectral Energies LLC
SLU = St. Louis University
TAMU = Texas A&M University
UC = University of Cincinnati
UD = University of Dayton
UDRI = University of Dayton Research Institute
UKY = University of Kentucky
WSU = Wright State University