2025
July
Cristina is appointed as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Aircraft [Link]
June
Gray delivers an excellent presentation on our work on whirl flutter prediction at the Fourth VLRCOE High-Speed Rotorcraft Workshop at NASA Ames
Isabelle participates in the SIAM Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp and the Mathematical Problems in Industry Workshop
Cristina participates in the Boeing Visiting Professor Program
May
Our research on flutter prediction is featured in Georgia Tech's Helluva Engineer Magazine! [Link]
Gray and Michael present their first conference papers at the VFS Forum in Virginia Beach
Simmons et al., "Experimental Amplitude-Dependent Characterization of the TiltRotor Aeroelastic Stability Testbed" [Preprint]
Simmons et al., "Influence of Wing-Propeller Aerodynamic Interactions on Aeroelastic Damping" [Preprint]
Hartin and Riso, "Predicting Limit-Cycle Oscillations in Propeller-Nacelle Systems with Freeplay" [Preprint]
Cristina presents our work on LCO constraints for design optimization at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems in Denver
Congratulations to current and incoming graduates
Dr. Luisa Piccolo Serafim defended her PhD thesis at Duke University! She will join our group as a postdoctoral fellow, co-advised with Prof. Smith
Amit earned his MS AE! He will continue his PhD in our group on computational modeling and analysis of composite panel dynamics
Rushil and Suhanna earned their BS AE! They will continue their education in our MS AE program as BS/MS students this Fall
Our article "Ride Quality in Transonic High-Aspect-Ratio-Wing Aircraft" has been published by the Journal of Aircraft [Preprint][Link]
April
Cristina presents our work, led by Michael, on freeplay-induced LCOs at the Aerospace Flutter and Dynamics Council Meeting at Gulfstream
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][GT AE News]
February
Cristina is selected as a Boeing Visiting Professor!
January
Cristina starts her role as the Structural Dynamics Chair for the AIAA SciTech Forum
Amit presents his first conference paper as a PhD student at the AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando
Our article "Evaluation of Whirl Flutter Prediction Methods for a System with Hardening or Softening Structural Nonlinearities" has been published by the Journal of the American Helicopter Society [Preprint][Link]
Divya and Rushil join our group as new undergraduate students!
2024
December
Congrats to Vishal (MS AE) for his graduation!
November
Congrats to Aarnav for being awarded a Presidential Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) supporting his research in Spring 2025!
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 is 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 U.S. Army High-Speed Rotorcraft Workshop hosted at GT
Our group is 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 in The Hague [Slides][Link to Conference]
Our group presents a collaborative paper at the International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics in The Hague
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 Air Force Base, where he will work on TRAST whirl flutter test data analysis
Maia and Cristina are awarded a GTRI IRAD for a project on data-driven forecasting using transformers
May
Cristina gives an invited seminar on our group's work on aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations at the University of California, Irvine
Our group presents four papers at the VFS Forum in Montreal
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 (MS AE) and Aniela (BS AE) for their graduation!
April
Aniela delivers her brown-bag talk 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
March
Cristina starts her role as the Deputy Structural Dynamics Chair for the AIAA SciTech Forum
Congratulations to Tarun for winning a GT Sigma Xi Best MS Thesis Award for his work on aeroelastic optimization! [Thesis, Paper] [GTAE News]
February
Our group is awarded funding by the GT AE Fellows program for a one-year aeroelastic flutter suppression project with Prof. 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 presents one conference paper to the 6th Decennial VFS Aeromechanics Specialists' Conference in Santa Clara
January
Our group presents four papers at the AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando
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 (MS AE) 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
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 the Brahmal Institute at Imperial College London [Talk Recording]
September
Congrats to Amit and Maia for passing the PhD 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 for being 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
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 (BS AE) and Jouwairia (MS AE) for their graduation!
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 to qualify for our BS/MS program
January
Our group presents three conference papers to the AIAA SciTech Forum in National Harbor
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
Our group is awarded funding by the Georgia Tech AE Fellows program for a one-year aeroelastic optimization project with Prof. Graeme Kennedy
October
Cristina gives an invited seminar in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
August
Amit and Maia join the group as new PhD students!
July
Divya (former U-M mentee) defends her Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Sanghi!
June
Our group presents 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
Our group presents 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!