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Advisors and Research Interests

Advisors and Research Interests

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E-mail:  grad@ae.technion.ac.il

Systems engineering, missile guidance, ballistic missile defense, optimization techniques, optimal control theory, flight dynamics and control, flexible structures dynamics and control.
Lady Davis, 655
My research is primarily concerned with applied aeroacoustics & aerodynamics. I aim to gain a physical understanding of the noise-generating flow mechanisms, develop improved noise prediction models, and lead to the application of innovative noise mitigation solutions in aircraft. Specific…
Bringing most challenging self-driving projects to students: one of Mobileye’s autonomous vehicles will be dedicated to testing new concepts and algorithms developed during undergraduate projects/ graduate research. This is an opportunity to get hands-on state-of-the-art autonomous public transport technology: control…
Lady Davis, 276
Experimental, theoretical and numerical study of laminar-turbulent transition, study of the evolution and control of coherent structures in wall bounded and free shear flows, hydrodynamic and thermal instabilities, unsteady phenomena in compressible flows.
Lady Davis 747
Basic and Applied Heat Transfer: Thermo-Acoustic Interaction, Conjugate Heat Transfer, Active Flow Control, Jet Impingement, Thermal Barrier Coatings. Measurement Technique Development: Infrared Thermography, Liquid Crystal Thermometry, Particle Image Velocimetry, Hotwire Anemometry, Laser Induced Fluorescence. Gas Turbine Component Analysis: Turbine Cooling and…
Lady Davis, 741
Hydrodynamic instability of multiphase flows. Turbulent combustion of liquid fuel sprays and gaseous fuels, and instability of flames. Computational fluid dynamics and large eddy simulations of turbulent combustion. Theoretical and numerical methods in multiphase and multi-material flows. Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs,…
Lady Davis 757
Mechanics (strength, behavior and stability) of aerospace structures. Theory of plasticity and metal forming processes. Continuum mechanics and mathematical rheology of finite deformations. Sintered powder materials and porous solids
Lady Davis, 517
Theoretical fluid mechanics, flow and transport phenomena in sheared suspensions, unsteady free surface flows, hydrodynamic stability of capillary jets, interfacial phenomena, rarified gas dynamics.
Lady Davis, 753
Fluid-thermal-structure interaction (FTSI) in supersonic flow Fluid-structure interaction with acoustic coupling Theoretical and computational methods in FTSI Stability of elastic plates
Acoustic metamaterials (including passive non-Hermitian materials) Mechanical properties of advanced composites for aerospace structures Wave propagation in periodic nonlinear magneto- and electro-elastic materials Research positions are available for undergraduate and graduate students
Lady Davis 751
Rocket, ramjet and scramjet propulsion, combustion, energetic materials, reacting and two-phase flows, metal and boron combustion, heat and mass transfer, bubbly flows, marine jet propulsion, hydrogen production and storage, and electric energy generation via fuel cells.
Rocket Propulsion
Computational solid mechanics, finite element methods, computational methods for acoustic and elastic waves, combination of analytic and numerical methods, space structures.
Lady Davis 739
Fluid mechanics research, combines interdisciplinary approaches from dynamical systems, signal processing, computer vision tools, and estimation theory. Current focus: cavitation and bubble dynamics, transitional and turbulent boundary layers, flow separation, flow control (low order system modeling), and non-isothermal multi-phase turbulence.…
Lady Davis 740
Missile guidance and control, optimal space trajectories, spacecraft swarm dynamics and control
Reactive Flows and Spray Combustion, Numerical Methods, Fire Safety.
Lady Davis, 510
Spacecraft dynamics and control, Astrodynamics, Trajectory optimization, Guidance systems, Space robotics, Optimal and adaptive control.
Aeronautics 111
Astrodynamics, Satellite Dynamics, Distributed Space Systems, and Vision-Aided Navigation.
Asher Space Research Institute, 210
Systems engineering, spacecraft and CubeSats engineering, spacecraft electric propulsion
ASRI 307
Estimation and Control of Systems with Non Gaussian Noises Innovative Future Air Traffic Control Concepts Robust and Adaptive Flight Control Systems and Applications
Asher Space Research Institute, 306
The Autonomous Navigation and Perception Lab (ANPL) performs research related to single and multi-robot autonomous perception, navigation and planning under uncertainty in the context of mobile robotics. Research in the lab is highly multidisciplinary, involving both fundamental theoretical studies and experimental…
Lady Davis 738
Aerodynamic theory of wings and bodies in unsteady motion. Asymptotic wing theories. Flight mechanics (theoretical and experimental). Helicopter dynamics. Basic fluid mechanics and transport phenomena. Animals aero- and hydro-dynamics.
Lady Davis, 745
Fundamental physics of turbulent boundary layers, in particular the organization of coherent structures and their evolution in non-equilibrium environments; model-based control techniques for turbulent drag reduction; the use of microfluidic technologies for turbulent flow control and diagnostics.
Lady Davis 756
My research focuses on theoretical and computational investigation of flow physics, with emphasis on transition to turbulence. My aim is trying to explain complex phenomena using a minimal number of elements. My research interests include aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, flow instabilities…
Lady Davis 750
Aeroelasticity and structural dynamics, interaction with control systems,  design methods.
Lady Davis, 508
Combustion: Ignition and flame dynamics in subsonic and supersonic flows, plasma-assisted combustion (PAC), hydrocarbon fuel and plasma chemical kinetics, alternative fuel characterization. Measurement Technique Development: Infrared thermography and spectroscopy, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS), laser induced fluorescence (LIF), optical…
Lady Davis 752
Propulsion (turbo-jets, turbo shaft and ramjet engine), Gas (power) turbine, Pressurized fluidized bed combustion for gas turbine operation, Atomization of liquid fuels, Combustion of liquid sprays, Low NOx combustion, Optical diagnostics in fluid mechanics and combustion systems, Blood flow.
Lady Davis, 506
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), code and algorithm development. Multi-physics flow solvers and flow simulations. Flow Visualization.
Rarefied gas dynamics: heat and mass transfer, small-scale flows, continuum breakdown. Aeroacoustics: vortex sound, fluid-structure interaction.
Asher Space Research Institute, 308
Propulsion and combustion: Dual mode scramjet – supersonic and subsonic flame holding Thrusters for space application discharging a concentrated mass Solid Propellants Two-Phase Reacting Flows Combustion dynamics and stability of Premixed Flames Fuel Variability For Propulsion And Energy Production
Rocket Propulsion
Propulsion and combustion and related areas, including: Gel Propellants; Solid, Liquid (Gel) and Hybrid Rockets; Ramjet and Scramjet Engines; Hypergolic Ignition, Boron Combustion, Combustion of Metals; Internal ballistics of Rocket and Ramjet engines. Positions available
Aeronautics 206
MEMS MOEMS Technology, Smart Materials, Actuators and Health Monitoring for Aerospace applications. Design, Modeling, Fabrication and Analysis of Smart low signature flying platforms. Active fluids control.  
Lady Davis, 650
Optimal estimation, information fusion and control, with application to aerospace systems. Particular interests: guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) systems; interdisciplinary aerospace systems, including structural estimation and control, and health monitoring/fault detection and isolation (FDI) systems; flow control.
Lady Davis 737
Rotary-Wing Theory, Rotorcraft Aeromechanics. Anisotropic Elasticity, Composite structures. Autonomous Aerial Vehicles.
Lady Davis, 520
Main Interests: Computational Aeroelasticity – the study of aeroelastic phenomena using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural finite-elements (FE) models. Click here to explore available positions and research projects.
Lady Davis 744
Rotary wings, Dynamics and aeroelasticity of blades, helicopter dynamics, helicopter flight mechanics, wind turbine dynamics, propellers, structural dynamics and stability, nonlinear dynamics.
Lady Davis, 518
My research interests are in the area of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of autonomous aerial and space vehicles. Specific interests include: Autonomous spacecraft entry, descent, and landing Autonomous spacecraft docking Optimal spacecraft evasion from debris Cooperative and one-on-one missile…
ASRI 214
My research interests are in the area of guidance of vehicles, in particular missiles and unmanned aircraft, operating individually or as a team. Specific interests are: 1-on-1 guidance (intercept angle guidance, one & two-sided pursuit-evasion, guidance amidst obstacles) Cooperative guidance…
Asher Space Research Institute, 307
Aeroacoustics Unsteady Aerodynamics Flow and Noise Positions Available
Lady Davis 758
Spray dynamics and combustion, fluid mechanics, hypersonic viscous flow, heat transfer and ablation.
Aeronautics 107
Interface-driven transport processes in multiphase media Two-fluid flow in porous media, droplet-based microfluidics, micromodel fabrication Dynamic wetting and spreading phenomena, interfacial thermodynamics Wall-bounded flows, convective heat transfer augmentation, impingement jets Turbomachinery aero-thermodynamics, propulsion system integration CHECK OUT OPEN MSc &…
Lady Davis 746
My interests lie in the understanding, prediction and control of physical mechanisms underlying laminar flow linear and nonlinear instability and laminar-turbulent transition from the incompressible to the hypersonic regime. In my early career I pioneered theoretical/numerical developments to address instability…
Aerodynamics, biofluid mechanics, hydrodynamics, autonomous robotics, space research.
Lady Davis 564
Stress analysis, structural dynamics; static and dynamic instability of composite and metal structures – elastic and inelastic; design of advanced composite structures; stress, stability and dynamic response analyses of modern marine structures; nondestructive techniques (NDT) in structures; stress analysis, dynamic…
Lady Davis, 516
Research at the Technion’s arc-heated wind tunnel, on high-enthalpy hypersonic flow. Including: plasma diagnostics (spectroscopy, interferometry, scattering), ablation of materials for thermal protection systems, numerical simulations of high-enthalpy flow.
Lady Davis 653
Systems & Control Theory Multi-agent Systems; Networked Dynamic Systems Network Optimization; Combinatorial Optimization Graph Theory   Visit my website: Personal website: zelazo.net Philadelphia Flight Control Laboratory
Lady Davis 755
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