Aerospace engineering is a rapidly advancing field that covers the fundamentals of design, manufacturing, and operation of vehicles moving above the earth’s surface, vehicles ranging from aircraft to helicopters, missiles, spaceplanes, and spacecraft. The design of such vehicles has always been challenging, mainly owing to the interdisciplinary nature of physical processes that they encounter in a hostile environment.

The main focus of the laboratory (ACML) is to study the problems arising in the design and analysis of the aerospace system using computational techniques. Of particular interest are interdisciplinary studies that bridge theoretical and numerical approaches, providing innovative methods and new insight into physics. Some of the research topics in computational problems associated with aerospace sciences and engineering are as follows:

1) Computational models and CFD for solving new fluid flow and heat transfer problems and combination with AI and quantum computing (spaceplanes, planetary landers, hypersonic vehicles, rarefied and microscale gases, space environmental modeling, etc.);

2) (Hydrogen fuel cell electric) aircraft aerodynamic design, noise, in-flight icing, lightning

3) Survivability, RF/IR stealth, and noise reduction for fixed and vertical lift aircraft

As can be seen from the research areas listed above, based on a deep understanding of basic theories, this laboratory explores cutting-edge topics such as AI algorithms and quantum computing, as well as traditional topics in various fields such as thermal fluids, structures, electromagnetics, and design optimization techniques. In addition, we focus on research and education using CAE and open source software (ANSYS, ABAQUS, COMSOL, EMA3D, LAMMPS, etc.) that simultaneously considers not only the fluid analysis field but also other fields such as electromagnetic analysis and molecular dynamics.

Graduates of ACML are employed in various fields of aerospace and defense in universities (IIT Guwahati, IIEST, NTU Singapore, Univ. of Edinburgh, etc.), research and public institutions (Korea Research Institute for Defense Technology and Quality, Defense Agency for Technology and Quality, Agency for Defense Development, Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology, etc.), and industry (Korea Aerospace Industries, Hanwha Aerospace, LG Electronics, Korean Air Aerospace, UAE Defense Industry, ANSYS US New Hampshire, etc.).