Our work is organised around three main applications, from which we derive fundamental problems that help advancing our understanding of some basic physics and/or enabling new capabilities for next-generation solutions. Below you will find the list of current postgraduate research projects. For more information about each project, please go to the page of the leading investigator.

Research themes

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Flight simulation and load control on flexible aircraft

Developing multidisciplinary analysis and optimization tools able to capture all the relevant interactions between flight dynamics, aerodynamics, structural dynamics and control.
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Wind turbine aeroelasticity

Assessing aeroelastic effects in long flexible composite blades, and integrating active load control mechanisms that improve performance and increase fatigue life.
Flow over flexible membrane, alfa = 12 deg, Re = 2500, prestretch = 1

Aeromechanics of small compliant fliers

Developing high-fidelity computational methods to investigate the dynamics of small air vehicles and to optimize their design and closed-loop operation for enhanced aerodynamic performance

 

Contact us

Prof Rafael Palacios

Room 338, City & Guilds Building
South Kensington Campus
Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ

Email: r.palacios@imperial.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5075