Participants will join a multi-disciplinary team at UCF to engage in hands-on research training. Each participant will partner with a faculty mentor and graduate student to address a specific research topic over the summer. Participants will be matched to projects based on their stated interests and match with potential mentors.
Continuum-Level Life Prediction of Materials under Combined Extreme Environments
Ali P. Gordon | Mechanics of Materials Research Group | Video | Project Poster
Damping of Hypersonic Structures Under Multi-Axial Loads
Jeffrey L. Kauffman | Structural Dynamics and Adaptive Structures Lab | Video | Project Poster
Evaluation of CFD Models for Solid-Propellant Rocket-Exhaust Modeling
Michael P. Kinzel | Computational Fluids and Aerodynamics Lab | Video | Project Poster
Atmospheric Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) for Manned Mars Missions
Tarek A. Elgohary | Astrodynamics and Space Robotics Lab | Video | Project Poster
Transpiration Cooling for Turbine Blades as Enabled by Additive Manufacturing — The “Holy Grail” for Cooling of Hot Section Components by Coolant Film
Jayanta Kapat | Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research | Video | Project Poster
Data-Driven Predictive Modeling for Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
Dazhong Wu | Intelligent Systems Lab | Video | Project Poster
Fundamental combustion Studies of Renewable for Future Turbines
Subith Vasu | Vasu Lab | Video | Project Poster
Hypersonic Propulsion
Kareem Ahmed | Propulsion and Energy Research Laboratory | Video | Project Poster
Nano-structured Heat Shield for Hypersonic and Atmospheric Re-entry Flight
Jihua Gou | Composite Materials and Structures Lab | Video | Project Poster
Mechanics of Ultralightweight Origami-Core Hypersonic Structures
Ranajay Ghosh | Complex Structures and Mechanics of Solids | Video | Poster
Precision Cooling Loop for Space-Based Payloads
Julie Brisset | Florida Space Institute | Video | Poster