MIAE conducts research across a broad range of aerodynamics and propulsion topics, from understanding the performance of wings and rotors in the ice-cold Canadian climate, to developing sustainable alternative aerospace fuels using metal powders. Our researchers have expertise in experimental, theoretical, and numerical methods, spanning the incompressible and compressible flow regimes. Examples include experimental aero-acoustics, theoretical modelling of bounded and free-shear flows, and developing novel computational algorithms to optimize the shape of wings and rotors. These are applied to small-scale multi rotor vehicles and large-scale commercial aircraft alike.
Associated Academic faculty
Andrew Higgins• Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Savu, Dan-Cornelius and Andrew Higgins. Structural Stability of a Lightsail for Laser-Driven Interstellar Flight. Acta Astronautica (2022). link to article.
- Larrouturou, Mathias, Andrew Higgins and Jeffrey Greason. Dynamic soaring as a means to exceed the solar wind speed. Frontiers in Space Technologies (2022). link to article.
- Greason, Jeffrey, Dmytro Yakymenko, Mathias Larrouturou and Andrew Higgins. Wind–pellet shear sailing. Acta Astronautica (2022). link to article.
- Duplay, Emmanuel, Zhuo Fan Bao, Sebastian Rodriguez Rosero, Arnab Sinha and Andrew Higgins. Design of a rapid-transit to Mars mission using laser-thermal propulsion. Acta Astronautica (2022). link to article.
- Higgins, Andrew. Experimental Simulation of Dust Impacts at Starflight Velocities. Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (2018). link to article.
Evgeny Timofeev • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Modarreszadeh, Amir & Timofeev, Evgeny & Merlen, Alain & Pernod, Philippe. (2021). Numerical Simulation of the Interaction of Wave Phase Conjugation with Bubble Clouds. International Journal of Multiphase Flow. 141. link to article.
- Modarreszadeh, Amir & Timofeev, Evgeny. (2019). High-Order Numerical Simulation of Axisymmetric Wave Phase Conjugation. Computers & Fluids. 197. link to article.
- Modarreszadeh, Amir & Timofeev, Evgeny & Merlen, Alain & Matar, Olivier & Pernod, Philippe. (2018). Detection of bubble movements via wave phase conjugation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 144. link to article.
- Timofeev, Evgeny & Norouzi, Farhang. (2016). Hybrid, explicit-implicit, finite-volume schemes on unstructured grids for unsteady compressible flows. 1738. link to article.
Jeffrey Bergthorson • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Jean-Philyppe, Joel & Fujinawa, Aki & Bergthorson, Jeffrey & Mi, Xiaocheng. (2023). The ignition of fine iron particles in the Knudsen transition regime. Combustion and Flame. 255. link to article.
- Carly Bennett, Jocelyn Blanchet, Keena Trowell, Jeffrey Bergthorson. (2023) Decarbonizing Canada’s energy supply and exports with solar PV and e-fuels. Renewable Energy, Volume 217, 119178. link to article.
- Panahi, Aidin & Chang, Di & Schiemann, Martin & Fujinawa, Aki & Mi, Xiaocheng & Bergthorson, Jeffrey & Levendis, Yiannis. (2022). Combustion Behavior of Single Iron Particles: An Experimental Study in a Drop-Tube Furnace under High Heating Rates and High Temperatures. Applications in Energy and Combustion Science. 13. link to article.
- Goroshin, Samuel & Palečka, Jan & Bergthorson, Jeffrey. (2022). Some fundamental aspects of laminar flames in nonvolatile solid fuel suspensions. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. 91. link to article.
- Trowell, Keena & Goroshin, Samuel & Frost, David & Bergthorson, Jeffrey. (2020). Aluminum and its role as a recyclable, sustainable carrier of renewable energy. Applied Energy. 275. link to article.
Jovan Nedic • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Caverly, D., & Nedić, J. (2022). Estimating wind velocity and direction using sparse sensors on a cylinder. Physics of Fluids. link to article.
- Pardo, R. M., Barua, N., Lisak, D., & Nedić, J. (2022). Jetting onset on a liquid surface accelerated past a submerged cylinder. Flow, 2, E36. link to article.
- Limbourg, R., & Nedić, J. (2021). Formation of an orifice-generated vortex ring. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 913, A29. link to article.
- Goyal, A., & Nedić, J. (2021). Near field of a vortex generated by chevron-tipped flat plates. AIAA Journal. link to article.
- Limbourg, R., & Nedić, J. (2021). On the asymptotic matching procedure predicting the formation number. Physics of Fluids. link to article.
Laurent Mydlarski • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Hewes, A. and Mydlarski, L., 2023. Multi-scalar mixing in turbulent coaxial jets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 961 A9. link to article.
- Lortie, S. and Mydlarski, L., 2022. Investigation of internal intermittency by way of higher-order spectral moments. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 932 A20. link to article.
- Hewes, A. and Mydlarski, L., 2022. Simultaneous measurements of velocity, gas concentration, and temperature by way of thermal-anemometry-based probes. Measurement Science and Technology, 33. link to article.
- Medvescek, J.I., Mydlarski, L. and Baliga, B.R., 2021. Densities of dilute aqueous solutions of 1-butanol and 1-pentanol at atmospheric pressure and temperatures in the range 283.15 to 353.15 K. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 66(4). link to article.
- Hewes, A., Medvescek, J.I., Mydlarski, L. and Baliga, B.R., 2020. Drift compensation in thermal anemometry. Measurement Science and Technology, 31. link to article.
Luc Mongeau • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- He, Zixin & Mongeau, Luc & Taduri, Rahul & Menicovich, David. (2023). Feedforward Harmonic Suppression for Noise Control of Piezoelectric Synthetic Jet Actuators. INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. 266.link to article
- Najafiyazdi, Mostafa & Mongeau, Luc & Nadarajah, Siva. (2022). Large Eddy Simulation on Unstructured Grids using Explicit Differential Filtering: A Case Study of Taylor-Green Vortex. Journal of Computational Physics. 476. link to article
- Bao, G., Gao, Q., Cau, M. et al. Liquid-infused microstructured bioadhesives halt non-compressible hemorrhage. Nat Commun 13, 5035 (2022). link to article
- Bouhabel, Sarah & Park, Scott & Kolosova, Ksenia & Latifi, Neda & Kost, Karen & Li-Jessen, Nicole & Mongeau, Luc. (2021). Functional Analysis of Injectable Substance Treatment on Surgically Injured Rabbit Vocal Folds. Journal of voice: official journal of the Voice Foundation. 37. link to article
Siva Nadarajah • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Pethrick, C. & Nadarajah, S. (2023). A Fully Discrete Entropy-Stable Flux Reconstruction Scheme for the Euler Equations. In: 2023 Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers. 2023. link to article.
- Nadarajah, S. & Cicchino, A. (2023). A Locally Energy Stable and Entropy Stable High-Order Solution for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Keynote Lecture. In: 2023 International Association for Computational Mechanics Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference. 2023.
- MacLean, K., & Nadarajah, S. (2022). Anisotropic Mesh Generation and Adaptation for Quads using the Lp-CVT Method. Journal of Computational Physics. link to article.
- Cicchino, A., Fernández, D. C. D. R., Nadarajah, S., Chan, J., & Carpenter, M. H. (2022). Provably stable flux reconstruction high-order methods on curvilinear elements. Journal of Computational Physics. link to article.
- Brown, D. A., & Nadarajah, S. (2022). Effect of inexact adjoint solutions on the discrete-adjoint approach to gradient-based optimization. Optimization and Engineering, 23(3). link to article.
Tim Lee • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Lee, T., Ni, J., and Lin, G., 2023, Aerodynamics and flowfield of DEP wing during transition with trialing-edge flap. ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering; link to article.
- Lin, G., and Lee, T., 2023, Lift and tip vortices generated by tapered backward and forward swept wings under stationary ground proximity. Journal of Aerospace Engineering. link to article
- Tremblay-Dionne, Vincent & Lee, Timothy. (2020). Discrepancy in the Aerodynamic Property and Flowfield of a Symmetric Airfoil Produced by the Stationary and Moving Ground Effect. Journal of Fluids Engineering. 143. link to article
- Lu, Anan & Lee, Timothy. (2019). Passive Wingtip Vortex Control by Using Tip-Mounted Half Delta Wings in Ground Effect. Journal of Fluids Engineering. 142. link to article
Wagdi G. Habashi • Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Research Publications
- Cui, Xiangda & Habashi, Wagdi. (2023). A Dendritic Freezing Model for In-Flight Supercooled Large Droplets Impingement and Solidification. Computers & Fluids. 254. link to article
- Mallikarjun, Shrutakeerti & Casseau, Vincent & Habashi, Wagdi & Gao, Song & Karchani, Abolfazl. (2022). Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Methods for Hypersonic Flows with Automatic Mesh Optimization. AIAA Journal. 61. link to article
- Targui, Adam & Habashi, Wagdi. (2022). On a reduced-order model-based optimization of rotor electro-thermal anti-icing systems. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow. link to article
- Cui, Xiangda & Habashi, Wagdi. (2021). SPH Simulation of Supercooled Large Droplets Impacting Hydrophobic and Superhydrophobic Surfaces. Computers & Fluids. link to article
Hany Moustapha • École de Technologie Supérieure
Recent Research Publications
- Ibrahem M. A. Ibrahem, Ouassima Akhrif, Hany Moustapha, Martin Staniszewski. 2021. Nonlinear generalized predictive controller based on ensemble of NARX models for industrial gas turbine engine. Energy. vol. 230 14 p.
- Ibrahem Mohamed Ibrahem, Ouassima Akhrif, Hany Moustapha, Martin Staniszewski. 2021. An ensemble of recurrent neural networks for real time performance modelling of three-spool aero-derivative gas turbine engine. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. vol. 143 , n 10. 30 p.
- Yannick Ouellet, Christian Savaria, François Roy, Hany Moustapha, François Garnier. 2019. A Preliminary design system for turbine discs. International Journal of Turbo & Jet-Engines. vol. 36 , n 3. p. 329-338.
- C. Savaria, P. Phutthavong, H. Moustapha, F. Garnier. 2018. Preliminary design for turbine housing and shroud segments. Aeronautical Journal. vol. 122 , n 1248. p. 260-282.
