Source noise, system noise, structural acoustics, and psychoacoustics

Critical Skills:

• Analytical aeroacoustics

• Experimental aeroacoutics

• Computational aeroacoustics

• Duct/liner acoustics

• System noise prediction

• Flight test

• Non-linear structural response

• Structural acoustics

CFD of landing gear.

• Psychoacoustic test/analysis

• Synthesis and simulation

Subsonic/transonic/supersonic aerodynamics, aeroelasticity and controls, fluid physics and modeling, flow control, computational methods, uncertainty

Critical Skills:

CFD of Ares launch vehicle analyzing aerodynamic line loads.

• Unsteady aerodynamics

• Aeroelasticity

• Aeroservoelasticity

• Flow physics

• Flow control

• Turbulence and transition

• Advanced computational algorithms

• Code development

• Aerodynamic design and optimization

• Uncertainty quantification

• Applied aerodynamics

Possible inflatable hypersonic decelerator from the Hypersonics branch.

Physics and chemistry modeling, aerothermodynamics, air breathing propulsion

Critical Skills:

• Physics and chemistry model development

• Numerical methods and code development

• Code application

• Experimental aerothermodynamics

• Experimental air breathing propulsion

• Advanced non-intrusive diagnostics development/integration

• Vehicle configuration development and optimization

Flight dynamics, control theory, systems identification, guidance and trajectory optimization, flying qualities

Critical Skills:

Aero and flight dynamics experts solved launch anomalies with Delta II-Heavy launch vehicle carrying ‘Dawn.’

• System identification

• Control theory, design, analysis, and implementation

• Uncertainty in dynamic systems

• Guidance and trajectory optimization

• Flying qualities

• Flight dynamic prediction and analysis

• Aerodynamic measurement and applied fluid mechanics

• Flight testing of sub- and full-scale vehicles

• Flight simulation

Air traffic operations, flight deck interface, human automation integration, atmospheric hazards and wake turbulence

Critical Skills:

• Aerospace modeling, simulation, and aero performance

• Air traffic operations and concepts

– En Route

– Terminal

– ATC

– ATOS

• Managing diverse vehicles (UAS/VLJ/GA)

• Flight deck interface technologies

• Human automation, functional allocation/integration

• Human operator performance assessment

• Avionics and flight management system

• Aviation atmospheric hazards and wake hazard character

• Experiment design with and without human test subjects

• System engineering and analysis

• Simulation validation and verification

• Certification methods for emerging technologies and operations

• Implementation

• Uncertainty in dynamic systems

• Guidance and trajectory optimization

• Flying qualities

• Flight dynamic prediction and analysis

• Aerodynamic measurement and applied fluid mechanics

• Flight testing of sub- and full-scale vehicles

• Flight simulation

Noninvasive measurement techniques and physics-based models of measurement methodologies

Critical Skills:

Flow visualization

• NDE detection systems

• Structural health monitoring

• NDE modeling

• RF/microwaves (antennas, RCS, radar)

• Laser sensing for wind tunnel atmospherics

• MEMS and nano sensing

• Optical materials and devices

• Chemical sensing

• Smart visual awareness

Integrated multifunctional design, damage mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, radiation physics, loads and dynamics

Critical Skills:

• Multifunctional design

• Damage mechanics

• Nonlinear mechanics

• Radiation physics

• Loads and dynamics

• Structures experimental techniques

Lightweight materials, multifunctional materials, computational design, environmental interactions, innovative processing

Critical Skills:

• Light alloys

• High-performance polymers

Computational Materials Design

• Multifunctional materials

• Advanced characterization methods

• Computationally guided materials design

• Extreme materials

• Microstructural analysis

• Materials testing

• Environmental effects modeling

• Near net shape fabrication

• Composites processing

• Facility/chemical safety