May 22, 2013 was a great day for the AE School. Students, faculty and distinguished alumni received numerous awards at the American Helicopter Society (AHS) Annual Awards Event held in Phoenix, AZ.

Awards

• AHS Atlanta Chapter was awarded the Chapter with the greatest percentage increase in membership (Prof. Marilyn Smith, Faculty Advisor, Sylvester Ashok, President)

• Vertical Flight Foundation (VFF) Fellowships: Joachim Hodara (Charles Crawford Scholarship), Michael Mayo (John Zuk Scholarship), Rajiv Shenoy (Charles Crawford Scholarship)

• Harry T. Jensen Award given to AH-64E Composite Tail Boom Development Team.  Team includes Dr. William Lewis, AMRDEC (GT Alumnus)

• Howard Hughes Award given to Sikorsky Aircraft Active Ground Resonance Stability Augmentation Design and Test Team:  Dr. Hong Xin (Alumnus), Dr. James Rigby (Alumnus)

•  Paul E. Hauter Award given for outstanding technical contributions to VTOL Aircraft Development:  Richard Spivey (Director of Army AMDD, retired, Alumnus)

• AHS Honorary Fellow, granted to distinguished society members wtih exceptional leadership and innovative technical contributions:  Nick Lappos, Senior Technical Fellow, Sikorsky (Alumnus)

• AE undergraduate design team presented their Award winning Helicopter Design Concept, in partnership with students of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.  AE Team members: Juan Pablo Afman, Michael Avera, Michael Burn,Christopher Cofelice, Peter Johnson, Robert Lee, Ian Moore,  Travis Smith, Eliya Wing - Faculty Advisor: Dr. Daniel Schrage. Middle East Technical U Team Members: Gökçin Çinar, Yakut Cansev Küçükosman, Özge Sinem Özçakmak and their faculty advisor: Dr. Ilkay Yavrucuk.

 Papers Presented

1.  Alexander Nikolsky Honorary Lecture:  "On Blade Control of Rotor Vibration, Noise and Performance -- Just Around the Corner?"  Prof. Peretz Friedmann, University of Michigan

2.  "Design Space Exploration for Future Rotorcraft Applications"  Michael Roberts, Sylvestor Ashok, Apinut Sirirojvisuth, Daniel Schrage, Georgia Insitute of Technology

3.  "Efficient Modeling of Dynamic Blockage Effects for Unsteady Wind Tunnel Testing" Sumant Sharma, Vrishank Raghav, Narayanan Komerath and Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

4.  "Analysis of the Diving Turn Maneuver for the UH-60A Rotor" Ritu Marpu and Lakshmi Sankar, Georgia Institute of Technology

5.  Student Design Competition Undergraduate Winner: BADGER.  Pablo Afman, Georgia Institute of Technology/Middle East Technical University

6.  "Safety Metrics for Obstacle Avoidance Trajectories of an Autonomous Helicopter"  Remi Coisnon and JVR Prasad (Presenter), Georgia Institute of Technology

7.  "A Novel Computational Approach to High Fidelity Wind Turbine Flow Simulation"  Eliot Quon and Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology and Glen Whitehouse, Continuum Dynmaics, Inc.

8.  "Oscillating Iced Airfoil Pressure Measurement and Computation"  Peter Lorber, Robert Flemming, John O'Neill, Robert Narducci and Tonja Reinert, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., and Lakshmi Sankar and Jee Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology

9.  "Optimization Techniques for Gear Train Design"  Sylvester Ashok and Daniel Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology

10.  "Development of a Rotorcraft Lifecycle Cost Model Incorporating Reliability and Maintainability with Application to Rotorcraft Preliminary Design"  Robert Scott, US Army AFDD and Daniel Schrage and Apinut Sirirojvisuth, Georgia Institute of Technology

11.  "Fidelity of Reduced Order Time Invariant Linear (LTI) Models for Integrated Flight and Rotor Control Apllications"  Mark Lopez and J.V.R. Prasad, Georgia Institute of Technology

12.  "Improved Prediction of Complex Rotorcraft Aerodynamics"  Marilyn Smith, James Cook, Martin Sanchez-Rocha, Rajiv Shenoy and Suresh Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology

13.  "Rotor Loads Prediction: A Matched-Harmonic Confluence Approach, with Application to 600+ UH-60A Flight Counters"  Chance McColl, Technical Data Analysis, Inc. and Massimo Ruzzene, Georgia Institute of Technology

14.  "Retrospective Cost Adaptive Control for Helicopter Vibration Reduction"  Ashwani Padthe, Peretz Friedmann, Dennis Bernstein, University of Michigan

15.  "New Strategy for Design of Composite Rotor Blade with Active Flaps"  Devesh Kumar and Carlos Cesnik, University of Michigan

16.  "Extreme Ground Effect Characterization Testing for Human-Powered Helicopter Application" Matthew Misiorowski, Ben Rothacker and Carlos Cesnick, University of Michigan

17.  "Performance Enhancement and Vibration Reduction in Dynamic Stall Condition using Active Camber Deformation"  Devash Kumar and Carlos Cesnick, University of Michigan

18.  "Optimum Performance of an Actuator Disk by a Compact Momentum Theory Including Swirl"  Ramin Modarres, David Peters, Washington University in St. Louis

19.  "Applications of Generalized Dynamic Wake Theory to the Flow in a Rotor Wake"  Zhongyang Fei and David Peters, Washington University in St. Louis

20.  "Optimization Study of the Wind-Turbine Power Coefficient Using Collective and Cyclic Pitch in Yawed Flow (108)"  Robert Liebschutz and David Peters, Washington University in St. Louis

21.  "Dynamic Wake Solutions for Rotors that are Powered, Braking or in Transition"  David Peters and Jesse Chugani, Washington University in St. Louis

Read more about the 2013 AHS Forum here.