Research Projects

A Research Project is an elective course. It is designed to train outstanding students in independent work of experimental or theoretical research in the last year of their studies. The students work closely with faculty members, who give them a subject for the project. Each student conducts the research under the guidance of a faculty member and summarizes its results in a final report, which is submitted to his/her advisor.

	Student	Adviser(s)	Project Title
2024/2025
	Hagar Berenstein	Tal Shima	Bio-Inspired Guidance Law — Interception While Avoiding an Obstacle
	Dor Katz	Pini Gurfil	Geostationary Satellite Gain Optimization for Closed-Loop Stationkeeping
	Omer Wexler	Moshe Idan	A Pointwise Minimum Norm Control Scheme for a Generic Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle
	Josef Buchmann	Hertzel Kadosh, Dan Michaels	Characterization of design parameters for Pintle injector using liquid propellant
	Roi Baruch	Igal Gluzman	Investigation of separated flow physics over low-Reynolds-number airfoil via surface and wake measurements
	Nitsan Geter	Yuval Levy	Axisymmetric Volumetric Representation Assisted Internal Ballistics
	David Freiman	Vitaly Shaferman	Bounded and Linear Quadratic Optimal Low-Thrust Collision Avoidance in Circular Orbits
2023/2024
	Elad Zur	Igal Gluzman	Experimental setup design and utilization of computer vision algorithms for the characterization of coupled interactions between bubbly shocks and cavitation cloud
	Michael Urman	Vitaly Shaferman, Oded Golan	Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicle Interception
	Bar Gawi	Moshe Idan, Oded Golan	Model Analysis of Hypersonic Gliding Vehicle
	Revital Frenkel	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal Control Based Soft Landing with Path Constraints
	Yahli Drucker	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal Low-Thrust Spacecraft Interception Guidance Law with Terminal Velocity Constraints
	Naama Gilat	Vitaly Shaferman, Oded Golan	Optimal Control of a Solar Sail at the Vicinity of L1
	Itamar Blumenfeld	Hadar Ben Gida	Lattice Boltzmann method simulations of the laminar flow in a two-dimensional double cavity configuration
	Shavit Attar	Dan Michaels	Characterization Of a Control System For Scramjet Engine Combustor
	Ohad Haftka	Avshalom Manela	Rarefied Gas Flow over a Double Airfoil Configuration
	Omri Bar Zeev	Daniella Raveh, Moshe Idan	Linear Dynamics of an Elastic Missile
	Noa Elram	Alon Gany, Sagi Dinisman	Application of Three Thrust Levels in a Single Fuel Grain for a Hybrid Motor
	Dekel Fishler	Tal Shima	One-on-one pure pursuit with intermittent locomotion
	Omer Wexler	Moshe Idan	Basic Control of a Generic Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicle
	Tamar Alperin	Anna Clarke	RAM-Air Parachute Real Time Piloting Simulator
	Guy Ben-Yosef	Avshalom Manela	Analytic Investigation of Unsteady Rarefied Gas Dynamics over a Flat Airfoil: Hydrodynamic Field Analysis
	Edos Osazuwa	Anna Clarke	Parachute Simulator Project
	Ofek Frank-Shapir	Igal Gluzman	Modeling energy pathways with nonlinear interactions in transitional flows
	Dor Katz	Pini Gurfil	Geostationary Satellite Stationkeeping Using Milankovitch-Lyapunov
	Naama Porat	Tal Shima	Cooperative Geometrical Rules and Guidance Laws for Simultaneous Target Interception
2022/2023
	Iris Kanter	Vladimir Martinusi	Analytical Dynamics in Rotating Frames
	Shahaf Haiman	Michael Karp	Solution of the Boundary Layer Equations for a Rotating Cone in Supersonic Flow
	Noam Touati	Daniella Raveh, Yuval Levy	Investigation of the Aeroelastic Response of a Compliant Panel
	Michael Urman	Vitaly Shaferman, Oded Golan	Optimal Trajectories for Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicles
	Itamar Levitan	Alon Gany	Investigation of a Solid Fuel Ramjet Projectile
	Naama_Gilat	Vitaly Shaferman, Oded Golan	Solar Sail Dynamics at the Vicinity of L1
	Eric Vaizman	Igal Gluzman	Investigation of near-wall scatter of scaled inflectional mean velocity profiles of turbulent separated flow over the Gaussian bump geometry
	Revital Frenkel	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal Control Based Soft Landing with Path Constraints
	Elad Zur	Igal Gluzman	Extension of computer vision algorithms for characterization of coupled interactions between shockwaves and cavitation cloud
	Samuel Gabison	Igal Gluzman	Computer Vision Algorithms Application for Tracking and Characterization of Non-Spherical Bubbles in Cavitating Flows
	Shai Karolinsky Davidovich	Dan Michaels	Experimental and numerical investigation of combustion dynamics in a diffusion flame, using hydrogen and nitrogen
	Yahli Drucker	Vitaly Shaferman	Linear Quadratic Optimal Low-Thrust Spacecraft Rendezvous Guidance Laws
	Ofek Frank-Shapir	Igal Gluzman	Modeling of complex actuation modalities in transitional boundary layers
	Guy Ben-Yosef	Avshalom Manela	Starting Vortices
	Mike Manashero	Moshe Idan, Gil Iosilevslii	PTOL – Point Takeoff Landing
	Elinor Kostjukovsky	Alon Gany	Aluminum Life Cycle in Process of Hydrogen and Electric Energy Production from Aluminum-Water Reaction
	Naama Aliskevicius	Oksana Stalnov	Characterization of Unsteady Laminar Separation Bubble on Pitching NACA0018
	Iliya Milman	Michael Karp	Shock-Fitting Computational Method for the Inviscid Blunt-Body Problem
	Maayan Shimoni	Anna Clarke	Hourly Scale Model of Wind Magnitude and Direction Based on Statistical Analysis
	Rayan MISHRA	Beni Cukurel	Design of Porous Media Combustor with Structured and Stochastic Lattice Structures
2021/2022
	Tom Itzhaki	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal Low-Thrust Collision Avoidance
	Sagi Dinisman	Alon Gany	Parametric investigation of a hybrid motor with a helical port
	Amit Sigawi	Jacob Cohen, Michael Karp	Transition to Turbulence in a Pipe – Part A – Simulation of Algebraic Growth of Perturbations
	Idan Ceausu	Yuval Dagan	Particle-Surface Wave Interactions: A Hydrodynamic Analog of Quantum Mechanics
	Sahar Shachar	Joseph Z. Ben-Asher	Trajectory simulation and investigation of uncertainty effects on a three-stage rocket designed by Rafael
	Michael Ushakov	Alexandros Terzis	Experimental investigation of capillary thermodynamics in fibrous materials
	Yoran Mitz	Oksana Stalnov	Acoustic Detection of Quadcopters in Hover with Ground-Based Microphones
	Dana Moses	Benni Natan	Bypass Air Injection Methods in a Boron-Loaded Solid Fuel Ramjet
	Boaz Ofarim	Yuval Dagan	Analytical investigation of Faraday waves in Hele-Shaw cells
	Amir Israel	Michael Karp, Yuval Levy	Turbulence Modeling Using Deep Learning
	Iliya Milman	Michael Karp	An Investigation of the Supersonic Blunt-Body Problem
	Or Nataf	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal Linear Quadratic Powered Descent With An Intermediate Point
	Or Nahum	Vitaly Shaferman	Optimal-control-based Algorithms for Low-Thrust Docking with a Constrained Approach Direction
	Or Nahum	Vitaly Shaferman	Target Interception with Time-Varying Acceleration Constraints
	Ofir Vaknin	Moshe Idan	Survey of Control Methods for Hypersonic Vehicles
2020/2021
	Geva Nagar	Dan Michaels	Supersonic Mixing Enhancement Concepts
	Mishley, Adi	Vitaly Shaferman	Differential Games Guidance with an Intercept Angle Constraint and Varying Speed Adversaries
	Shachar, Sahar	Joseph Z. Ben-Asher	Trajectory simulation and investigation of uncertainty effects on a three-stage rocket designed by Rafael
	Efrati, Ron	Dan Givoli	Hybrid 3D-2D Modeling of Wave Problems
	Goldin, Roni	Benni Natan	Hypergolic Ignition of Kerosene Gel with Hydrogen Peroxide for Rocket Motors
2019/2020
	Ceausu, Idan	Yuval Dagan	Parametric Study of Particle-SurfaceWave Interactions: A Hydrodynamic Analog of Relativistic Quantum Dynamics
	Haber, Ori	Oksana Stalnov	Modeling of Tonal Noise Component in Propellers
	Liu, Zhixuan	Daniel Weihs	Liquid Fuel Behavior in a Spacecraft Fuel Tank During Acceleration/Deceleration
	Barlell, Edo	Oksana Stalnov	Development of an algorithm to track a moving acoustic source
	Yechieli, Noam	Raveh Daniella	Aeroservoelastic Stability Investigation of The A3TB
	Braun, Ido	Yossi Ben Asher	Research and Analysis of The Learning Solutions Provided for The Brachistochrone Problem
	Dayan, David	Moshe Idan	Performance Analysis of a 3-D Terrain Following System
	Hai, Hadar	Dan Michaels	Combustion Stability in a Ramjet Engine
	Levy, Tomer Itzhak	Moshe Idan	Transportation of a Slung Load using Multiple Quadrotor UAVs while maintaining a Constant Altitude
	Rosen, Matar	Igal Kronhaus	The Influence of Cathodic Arc Jet on Separated Subsonic Flow Over Backward Facing Step
	Sassy, Guy	Pini Gurfil	Vision-Aided Navigation for Pinpoint Landing on the Moon
	Torbiner, Ori	Gil Iosilevskii	Aircraft Performing a Ground Circle with Presence of Wind

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