SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTS DIRECTORATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Directorate Brief Description:
Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate provides knowledge, capabilities, and practices associated with the conception, development, and planning of advanced missions and systems using advanced operations and system analyses that integrate contributions of required technical disciplines and systems elements into versatile analytical approaches while also considering performance, cost and reliability/safety driven by science, commercial, military and exploration requirements. Includes knowledge of mission analysis and systems architectures for aircraft, launch vehicles, entry vehicles, robotic systems, and crewed vehicles and habitats, including the safety, economic, performance and environmental effects for each.

Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate provides knowledge, capabilities, and practices associated with the development of aerospace vehicle and spacecraft concepts from a systems perspective to satisfy prescribed mission architectures and identify enabling technologies for performance, cost and safety. Knowledge of conceptual design, sizing & synthesis of aerospace vehicles or spacecraft. Knowledge of elicitation from subject matter experts of the potential technology improvements from R&D projects in all the relevant aerospace disciplines.

Branch Brief Description:
The Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch (ASAB) is responsible for: Developing and maintaining a knowledge base as an Agency resource as well as a Center resource for systems analysis to support ongoing and future investments in aeronautics program.

• Providing appropriate fidelity, multidisciplinary systems analysis of a broad range of aeronautics concepts, both customer-supplied and internally defined.
• Supporting the identification and assessment of promising new technology areas.
• Supporting the Agency's strategic planning.
• Supporting competitive aeronautics proposal generation and evaluation.
• ASAB also has the responsibility to enable the mission and system analysis and technology trades for advanced aerospace system concepts.
• Knowledge of systems analysis methods for use in performing conceptual analysis and design of aerospace systems.
• Knowledge of multidisciplinary design optimization methods for use in preliminary and detailed engineering analysis and design of aerospace vehicles and spacecraft (including design, manufacturing, and operations).

Project Description:
Current Projects:

• Blended Wing Body (BWB) Fuselage Concept
• Structural Design and Optimization
• Advanced Composite Technology Development and Application to BWB
• High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Vehicle Design
• Crew Exploration Vehicle Structural Design

Desired Major(s):
Aerospace, Mechanical, Computer Science, Civil, Electrical, Electronics, Architecture

Key Words:
CAD/CAM, FEM, CFD, MATLAB, SolidWords, NASTRAN, Advanced Aerospace Concepts, Structures, Aerodynamics, Control, Aeroelasticity, PerformancE

Point of Contact Information:
Vivek Mukhopadhyay
MS 442/Aero-Systems Analysis Branch (E403)
Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate (B1209 R190-6)
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA 23681-2199
757-864-2835
v.mukhopadhyay@larc.nasa.gov
http://fmad-www.larc.nasa.gov/mdob/users/vivek/Personal_info/

This project can be adapted for: (check all that are relevant)
[X] Post-Doc
[X] Faculty
[X] Graduate Students
[X] Undergraduate Students
[X] High School Students

Advanced Aerospace Concepts

• Efficient Aerodynamic Shape and Integration (EASI): Conceptual Design Shop (CDS): Geometry Structural
  Layout and Packaging (GSLP)
  
• Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM) Concept Design
  
• Blended Wing Body Concept Structural Design and Optimization
  
• Director's Creativity and Innovation Initiative
  
• ISAT REVCON "Joined-Wing Technology Evaluation" Systems Study"
  
• Lean Aerospace Initiative, Lean Process Engineering, MIT
  
• HSCT4/CJopt High Fidelity Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design
  
• BWB Non Circular Pressurized Fuselage Structural Design
  
• BWB Preliminary Flutter Analysis
  
  Aero-servo-elasticity and Active Optimal Control
  
• BACT Model Flutter Suppression Control Law Development
  
• See MIT Lean Aerospace Initiative Slide and LAI Web site
  
• Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Lab
  
• Interactive preliminary Flutter Analysis
  
• Active Flexible Wing Flutter suppression control law development
  
• Optimal Robust FSS/GLA control law design and optimization
  
• On-line Controller Performance Evaluation during wind-tunnel test
  
  Software and Analysis Tools
  
• CAD/Cam Solid and Surface Modeling and Design - SolidWorks
  
• Rapid Finite Element Analysis - MSC-NASTRAN/ProEngineer/COSMOS/M
  
• Interactive Weight Estimation - using MATHCAD
  
• Interactive General Aviation Conceptual Design - MATHCAD
  
• Aero-servo-elasticity, Stability and Control - MATLAB
  

• Solid Modeling of Crew Exploration Vehicle Structure Concepts for Mass Optimization
  V. Mukhopadhyay, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, AIAA-2006-7126, 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Portsmouth, Virginia, Sep. 6-8, 2006
• Adaptive Modeling, Engineering Analysis and Design of Advanced Aerospace Vehicles
  V. Mukhopadhyay, S. Hsu, B. Mason, D. Sleight, W. Jones, J. Chu, M. Hicks, and J. Spangler, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; H. Kamhawi and J. Dahl, Technosoft, Inc, Cincinnati, OH, AIAA-2006-2182: 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, May 1-4, 2006
• Structural Configuration Analysis of Crew Exploration Vehicle Concepts
  V. Mukhopadhyay, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, AIAA-2006-2082, 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference 14th AIAA/ASME/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, 7th, Newport, Rhode Island, May 1-4, 2006
• Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Noncylindrical Fuselage for Blended-Wing-Body Vehicle
  V. Mukhopadhyay; J. Sobieszczanski-Sobieski; I. Kosaka; G. Quinn; G. N. Vanderpaats, Journal of Aircraft 2004 0021-8669 vol.41 no.4 (925-930)
• Benchmark Active Control Technology Special Section: Part III
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 2001, 0731-5090 vol.24 no.1 (146-146)
• Benchmark Active Control Technology Special Section: Part II
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 2000 , pp. 0731-5090 vol.23 no.6 (1093-1093)
• Transonic Flutter Suppression Control Law Design and Wind-Tunnel Test Results
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 2000, pp. 0731-5090 vol.23 no.5 (930-937)
• Benchmark Active Control Technology: Part I
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 2000 pp. 0731-5090 vol.23 no.5 (913-913)
• Historical Perspective on Analysis and Control of Aeroelastic Responses
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 2003, pp. 0731-5090 vol.26 no.5 (673-684)
• Blended Wing Body (BWB) Fuselage Structural Design for Weight Reduction
  V. Mukhopadhyay, NASA Langley, Hampton, VA, AIAA-2005-2349, 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference , Austin, Texas, Apr. 18-21, 2005
• Multidisciplinary high-fidelity analysis and optimization of aerospace vehicles. I - Formulation
  J. L. Walsh, J. C. Townsend, A. O. Salas, J. A. Samareh, V. Mukhopadhyay, and J.-F. Barthelemy (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), AIAA-2000-418, Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, 38th, Reno, NV, Jan. 10-13, 2000
• Analysis, Design and Optimization of Non-Cylindrical Fuselage for Blended-Wing-Body (BWB) Vehicle
  V. Mukhopadhyay and J. Sobieszczanski-Sobieski, NASA Langley, Hampton, VA; I. Kosaka, G. Quinn and C. Charpentier, Vanderplaats RandD, Colorado Springs, CO, AIAA-2002-5664, 9th AIAA/ISSMO Symposium on Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization, Atlanta, Georgia, Sep. 4-6, 2002
• Reduced-Order Optimal Feedback Control Law Synthesis for Flutter Suppression
  V. Mukhopadhyay, J.R. Newsom, and I. Abel, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1982, pp. 0731-5090 vol.5 no.4 (389-395)
• Flutter suppression control law design and testing for the active flexible wing
  Mukhopadhyay, Vivek (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Journal of Aircraft 1995 , pp. 0021-8669 vol.32 no.1 (45-51)
• On-line performance evaluation of multiloop digital control systems
  POTOTZKY, ANTHONY (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co., Hampton, VA);WIESEMAN, CAROL;HOADLEY, SHERWOOD T.;MUKHOPADHYAY, VIVEK (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1992 , pp. 0731-5090 vol.15 no.4 (878-884)
• Digital robust control law synthesis using constrained optimization
  MUKHOPADHYAY, VIVEK (Planning Research Corp., Hampton, VA), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1989 0731-5090 vol.12 no.2 (175-181)
• Stability robustness improvement using constrained optimization techniques
  MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (NASA, Langley Research Center; Joint Institute forAdvancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, VA), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1987, pp. 0731-5090 vol.10 no.2 (172-177)
• A multiloop robust controller design study using singular value gradients
  NEWSOM, J. R. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Loads and Aeroelasticity Div., Hampton, VA);MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, VA), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1985 , pp. 0731-5090 vol.8 no.4 (514-519)
• A multiloop system stability margin study using matrix singular values
  MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (NASA, Langley Research Center; Joint Institute forAdvancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, VA);NEWSOM, J. R. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1984, pp. 0731-5090 vol.7 no.5 (582-587)
• Stability robustness improvement using constrained optimization techniques
  MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), AIAA-1985-1931, IN: Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Snowmass, CO, August 19-21, 1985, Technical Papers (A85-45876 22-08). New York, 1985, p. 490-496.
• Digital robust active control law synthesis for large order systems using constrained optimization
  MUKHOPADHYAY, VIVEK (PRC Kentron, Inc., Hampton, VA), AIAA-1987-2588, IN: AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Monterey, CA, Aug 17-19, 1987, Technical Papers. Volume 2 (A87-50401 22-08). New York, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987, p. 1414-1423. NASA-supported research.
• Interactive flutter analysis and parametric study for conceptual wing design Mukhopadhyay, Vivek, AIAA-1995-3943, Aircraft Engineering, Technology, and Operations Congress, 1st, Los Angeles, CA, Sept 19-21, 1995
• Flutter suppression digital control law design and testing for the AFW wind tunnel model
  MUKHOPADHYAY, VIVEK (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), AIAA-1992-2095, IN: AIAA Dynamics Specialists Conference, Dallas, TX, Apr 16, 17, 1992, Technical Papers (A92-35651 14-08). Washington, DC, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992, p. 156-161.
• A multiloop, digital flutter suppression control law synthesis case study
  MUKHOPADHYAY, VIVEK (Planning Research Corp., Hampton, VA) PERRY, BOYD, IIINOLL, THOMAS E. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), AIAA-1989-3556, IN: AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Boston, MA, Aug 14-16, 1989, Technical Papers. Part 2 (A89-52526 23-08). Washington, DC, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1989, pp. 1105-1113.
• Application of matrix singular value properties for evaluating gain and phase margins of multiloop systems
  MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, VA) NEWSOM, J. R. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Loads and Aeroelasticity Div., Hampton, VA) AIAA-1982-1574
• The use of singular value gradients and optimization techniques to design robust controllers for multiloop systems
  NEWSOM, J. R. (NASA, Langley Research Center, Loads and Aeroelasticity Div., Hampton, VA), MUKHOPADHYAY, V. (Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, VA), AIAA-1983-2191, IN: Guidance and Control Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, August 15-17, 1983, Collection of Technical Papers (A83-41659 19-63). New York, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1983, p. 173-180.
• Transonic flutter suppression control law design using classical and optimal techniques with wind tunnel results
  Vivek Mukhopadhyay (NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA), AIAA-1999-1396, AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference and Exhibit, 40th, St. Louis, MO, Apr. 12-15, 1999, Collection of Technical Papers. Vol. 3 (A99-24601 05-39)

• Branch Brief Description:
  The Vehicle Analysis Branch (VAB) is responsible for:
  • Performing preliminary design and analysis of space transportation system concepts, from the point of origin to the final destination and the entire life cycle, in support of space and planetary exploration.
  • Performing an advocacy role for space transportation systems that enable effective space exploration.
  • Performing a non-advocacy role in the independent evaluation of individual system concepts.
  • Identifying, evaluating, and recommending high payoff and synergistic technologies.
  • Assisting in strategic planning via technology roadmap development.
  • Assisting tactical decision-making via requirement sensitivity evaluations.
  
  Point of Contact Information: John J. Korte, Branch Head, 757-864-4502
  
  
• Branch Brief Description:
  The Space Mission Analysis Branch (SMAB) is responsible for:
  • Conducting systems studies to develop innovative concepts for space exploration and mission architectures.
  • Performing systems analyses to assess the technical merit of spacecraft and mission concepts.
  • Providing technical support to the Earth and Space Science Programs in the area of spacecraft analysis, including mission and performance definition assessments.
  • Providing systems analysis support to Langley Research Center research and technology projects.
  • Conducting analytical studies of space experiments and accommodations.
  • Providing technical support to customers through the analysis of system performance and interface design, definition, and assessment of critical issues, independent evaluation of flight and ground system performance, and system requirements analysis.
  
  Point of Contact Information: Laura M. Brewer, Branch Head, 757-864-1927
  
  
• Branch Brief Description:
  The Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch (ASAB) is responsible for:
  • Developing and maintaining a knowledge base as an Agency resource as well as a Center resource for systems analysis to support ongoing and future investments in aeronautics programs.
  • Providing appropriate fidelity, multidisciplinary systems analysis of a broad range of aeronautics concepts, both customer-supplied and internally defined.
  • Supporting the identification and assessment of promising new technology areas.
  • Supporting the Agency's strategic planning.
  • Supporting competitive aeronautics proposal generation and evaluation.
  
  Point of Contact Information: William M. Kimmel, Branch Head, 757-864-5974

Sarah Pauls
LARSS Program Assistant

NASA Langley
Research Center
Office of Education
Mail Stop 400-LARSS
Hampton, VA 23681-2199

Phone: (757) 864-4394
Facsimile: (757) 864-9701
Sarah.E.Pauls@NASA.gov