2025
April
Cristina has been reappointed for her tenure track's 2025–2028 phase!
Suhanna delivers her brown-bag talk to qualify for our BS/MS program
Congratulations to Aarnav for being awarded a DoD SMART Scholarship!
March
Congratulations to Isabelle and Gray for being awarded VFF Scholarships! [VFS News]
February
Our article "Ride Quality in Transonic High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft" has been accepted by Journal of Aircraft [Preprint]
Cristina has been selected as a 2025 Boeing Visiting Professor!
January
Cristina's abstract has been accepted for presentation at the 2025 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems
Congrats to Amit for publishing his first conference paper as a PhD student
Our article "Evaluation of Whirl Flutter Prediction Methods for a System with Hardening or Softening Structural Nonlinearities" has been published by Journal of the American Helicopter Society [Preprint][Link]
Divya and Rushil join our group as new undergraduate students!
2024
December
Congrats to Gray and Michael for having their abstracts accepted for the next VFS Forum in May 2025!
Congrats to Amit for submitting his first conference paper as a PhD student for the next AIAA SciTech Forum in January 2025!
Congrats to Vishal (MSAE) for his graduation!
November
Congrats to Aarnav to be awarded a Presidential Undergraduate Research Award in support of his research in Spring 2025!
We completed the third Annual Review of our Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) Task 8 Project
October
Isabelle participates in the NextProf Pathfinder workshop held at GT (where Cristina serves as a faculty panelist)
Our article "Bifurcation Analysis of Single-Bay Supersonic Panels Using Pre-Flutter Output Data" has been published by AIAA Journal [Link]
Our article "Sliding-Window Matrix Pencil Method for Design Optimization with Limit-Cycle Oscillation Constraints" has been published by AIAA Journal [Link]
September
Gray's VFS Graduate Student Design Competition team was awarded second place in this year's competition [VFS News][GT News]
August
Isabelle and Michael join our group as new graduate students!
Sarah, Carlotta, Aarnav, Emma, Krish, and Suhanna join our group as new undergraduate students!
July
Cristina presents our research on whirl flutter prediction at the Third Army High-Speed Rotorcraft Workshop hosted at GT
Our group has been awarded a GT Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Grant to add sustainable aviation content to AE 4220
June
Cristina delivers a keynote address at the 20th International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics [Slides] [Link to Conference]
Our group has contributed a collaborative paper with the University of Michigan at the International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics
Sanghi et al., "Evaluation of Aeroelastic Models for Gust Response Prediction in Very Flexible Wings" [Link]
Amit begins his internship at the Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics Research Institute organized by Sandia National Laboratories
Gray begins his internship in the Army Research Laboratory at Langley where he will apply our output-based flutter prediction methods to TRAST data
Maia and Cristina have been awarded a GTRI IRAD for a project on "Enhanced Data-Driven Forecasting Using Transformers Networks"
May
Cristina gives an invited seminar on our group's work on aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations at the University of California, Irvine
Our group has contributed four conference papers to the 80th VFS Annual Forum
Gatlin and Riso, "Predicting Whirl Flutter Bifurcations Using Machine Learning" [Link]
Gali and Riso, "Output-Based Approach for Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter Bifurcation Analysis" [Link]
Gali et al., "Inflow Model Effects on Propeller Whirl Flutter" [Link]
Warren and Riso, "Sliding-Window Matrix Pencil Method for Whirl Flutter Bifurcation Analysis" [Link]
Congrats to Ted (MSAE) and Aniela (BSAE) for their graduation!
April
Aniela delivers her brown-bag talk "Impact of Viscosity Effects on the Aeroelastic Response of a Very Flexible Wing" to qualify for our BS/MS program
Cristina gives an invited seminar on our group's work on aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations at the University of Maryland, College Park
Cristina and Tarun attend the GT Sigma Xi Awards Banquet to receive Tarun's Best M.S. Thesis Award [GT News]
March
Cristina starts her role as the Deputy Technical Discipline Chair for the AIAA SciTech Forum Structural Dynamics discipline
Congratulations to Tarun for winning the 2024 GT Sigma Xi Best M.S. Thesis Award for his work on aeroelastic optimization! [Thesis, Paper]
February
Our group has been awarded funding by the GT AE Fellows program for a one-year aeroelastic flutter suppression project with Prof. Juergen Rauleder
Our article "Roll Maneuverability of Transonic High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft with Flared Folding Wingtips" has been published by Journal of Aircraft [Link]
Our group has contributed one conference paper to the 6th Decennial VFS Aeromechanics Specialists' Conference
January
Our group has contributed four conference papers to the AIAA SciTech Forum
Riso, "Output-Based Prediction of Whirl Flutter Limit-Cycle Oscillations Considering Multiple Varying Parameters" [Link]
Golla et al., "A Sliding-Window Matrix Pencil Method for Aeroelastic Design Optimization with Limit-Cycle Oscillation Constraints" [Link]
de Dominicis and Riso, "Limit-Cycle Oscillation Prediction in Supersonic Panels Using Pre-Flutter Transient Responses" [Link]
Ritter et al., "Collaborative Pazy Wing Analyses for the Third Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop" [Link]
Gray joins our group as a new graduate student!
2023
December
Congrats to Tarun (MSAE) for his graduation and best of luck with his next position @ SpaceWorks!
Cristina gives multiple invited seminars on our group's work on predicting and constraining aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations
Department of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies at the Politecnico di Milano (virtual)
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome
Cristina co-authors Aerospace America's Year in Review article highlighting the 2023 achievements of the structural dynamics community [Link]
November
Congrats to Tarun for defending his M.S. thesis!
We completed the second Annual Review of our Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE) Task 8 Project
October
Cristina becomes a Senior Member of the AIAA
Our article "Fundamental Investigation into Output-Based Prediction of Whirl Flutter Bifurcations" has been published by Journal of Fluids and Structures [Link]
Cristina gives an invited talk at the AR20+ Workshop on High Aspect Ratio Wing Technologies at Brahmal Institute at Imperial College London [Talk Recording]
September
Congrats to Amit and Maia for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exams!
Cristina gives an invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced
August
Congrats to Amit for being selected to attend the NextProf Pathfinder workshop at the University of Michigan!
July
Congrats to Aniela to be awarded a Presidential Undergraduate Research Award in support of her research in Fall 2023!
Our article "Geometrically Nonlinear Effects in Wing Aeroelastic Dynamics at Large Deflections" has been published by Journal of Fluids and Structures [Link]
June
Cristina attends the second University of Maryland's High-Speed Rotorcraft Workshop
Our article "Bifurcation-Diagram-Free Post-Flutter Response Constraint for Design Optimization" has been published by the AIAA Journal [Link]
Cristina is one of the 35 recipients of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award [ORAU News][GTAE News]
May
Our article "High-Fidelity Gradient-Based Wing Structural Optimization Including Geometrically Nonlinear Flutter Constraint" has been published by AIAA Journal [Link]
Cristina is selected as a member of the Vertical Flight Society Dynamics Technical Committee
Congrats to Todd (BSAE) and Jouwairia (MSAE) for their graduation! They will pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees @ GT AE in ASDL.
April
Our article "High-Fidelity Aerostructural Optimization with a Geometrically Nonlinear Flutter Constraint" has been published by AIAA Journal [Link]
Cristina presents our work on limit-cycle oscillation prediction at the Aerospace Flutter and Dynamics Council meeting at NASA Langley
March
Todd delivers his brown-bag talk "Streamlining Whirl Flutter Prediction Considering Multiple Varying Parameters" to qualify for our B.S./M.S. program
January
Our group has contributed three conference papers to the AIAA SciTech Forum
Gali et al., "Predicting Whirl Flutter Bifurcations Using Pre-Flutter Output-Data" (first publication all from our group!) [Link]
Riso and Cesnik, "Investigation of Geometrically Nonlinear Effects in the Aeroelastic Behavior of a Very Flexible Wing" [Link]
Sanghi et al., "Roll Maneuvers of Very Flexible Aircraft with Flared Folding Wingtips" [Link]
Cristina presents at the Third AIAA Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop (AePW3) held in conjunction with the AIAA SciTech Forum
Congrats to Maia for attending the AIAA SciTech Forum as an AIAA Diversity Scholar!
Our article "Impact of Low-Order Modeling on Aeroelastic Predictions for Very Flexible Wings" has been published by Journal of Aircraft [Link]
2022
December
Cristina contributes to a news article by the Georgia Tech College of Engineering providing an outlook on 2023 [Link]
Our group is awarded funding by the Georgia Tech AE Fellows program for a one-year aeroelastic optimization project with Prof. Graeme Kennedy
Cristina co-authors Aerospace America's Year in Review article highlighting the 2022 achievements of the structural dynamics community [Link]
November
Cristina and Vishal present the accomplishments for Task 8 at the first GT VLRCOE Annual Review of the 2021-2016 cycle
October
Cristina serves on the panel "Launching into Grad School with WoAA and AIAA" hosted by WoAA and AIAA [Link]
Cristina gives an invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
September
Cristina attends the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee Mid-Year meeting hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park
August
Amit and Maia join the group as new Ph.D. students!
July
Divya (former U-M mentee) defends her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Sanghi!
Cristina attends the Closure Meeting of the Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft at Airbus Toulouse, France
June
We presented three conference papers at the International Forum on Aeroelastic and Structural Dynamics in Madrid
Riso and Cesnik, "Post-Flutter Analysis of the Pazy Wing Geometrically Nonlinear Benchmark Model" [Preprint]
Sanghi et al., "Analysis of Ride Qualities in Transonic High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft" [Preprint]
Gray et al., "High-Fidelity Aerostructural Optimization with a Geometrically Nonlinear Flutter Constraint" [Preprint]
May
Our article "Estimating Flutter Bifurcation Diagrams Using the State Velocity" has been published by AIAA Journal [Link]
Vishal is the first graduate student to join the group!
January
We presented three conference papers at the AIAA SciTech Forum in San Diego
Riso and Cesnik, "Low-Order Geometrically Nonlinear Aeroelastic Modeling and Analysis of the Pazy Wing Experiment" [Link]
Jonsson et al., "High-Fidelity Gradient-Based Wing Structural Optimization Including a Geometrically Nonlinear Flutter Constraint" [Link]
Sanghi et al., "Conventional and Unconventional Control Effectors for Load Alleviation in High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft" [Link]
Cristina joins the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!
2021
October
Cristina is selected for the 2022 edition of the NSF CMMI Game Changer Academies (CGCA) Program
August
We presented a new paper at the AIAA AVIATION Forum (virtual due to COVID-19)
Riso et al., "A Post-Flutter Response Constraint for Gradient-Based Aircraft Design Optimization" [Link]
July
Our first grant "Whirl Flutter and Stability Analysis for Advanced VTOL Concepts" is selected for funding!
June
Cristina serves as an invited panelist for NextProf Engineering
May
Cristina is selected as a member of the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee
March
Cristina will join the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in January 2022!
January
We presented a new paper at the AIAA SciTech Forum (virtual due to COVID-19)
Riso and Cesnik, "Correlations Between UM/NAST Nonlinear Aeroelastic Simulations and the Pre-Pazy Wing Experiment" [Link]