Collaborative Hypersonic And Missile Defense Faculty Research at AFIT

Overview

Collaborative Hypersonic And Missile Defense Faculty Research at AFIT

The Air Force Institute of Technology is offering a faculty research fellowship in Collaborative Hypersonic and Missile Defense at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

As an ORISE participant, you will engage with AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management Faculty in Hypersonic Vehicle development to participate in configuring new geometries, modeling and simulating the vehicle response to aerodynamic, structural, and thermal loading conditions and conducting physical experiments for validation. Computer packages such as ABAQUS, NASTRAN, CAPS, Matlab, DAKOTA, Kestrel, FUN3D, etc. are utilized for data generation, post-processing and response interpretation.

Opportunities exist to develop skills and experience in new and efficient methods of predicting the vehicle response under multiple flight paths, maneuvers, high-speed impacts, and multiple load conditions, and determine the vehicle's sustainability and resilience through the computation of stresses, deflections, and buckling resistance. Computational tools are utilized for predicting aerodynamic pressures using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and analyze for vehicle stability, survivability, fatigue life and resilience under extreme operating conditions (e.g., high temperature operating conditions, vehicle response to various heat transfer modes).

• Expand skills and experience in defining the associated uncertainties in mission, vehicle geometry, and material variabilities for computing the safety bands that are available for various vehicle geometries using probabilistic analysis methods
• Consider efficient approaches to creating optimized vehicle configurations for shape, size, and topology aspects of hypersonic mission; integrating aerodynamic, thermal, and structural performance requirements in a multidisciplinary optimization environment
• Participate in demonstrating newly developed configurations and assessing manufacturability issues for high temperature materials that are being considered with their advanced properties
• Expand skills in configuring new geometries in CAD
• Participate in modeling and simulating vehicle response to aerodynamic, structural, and thermal loading conditions
• Participate in conducting physical experiments for validation
• Share state-of-the-art methods and expertise through short courses, lectures, and discussions with DoD scientists and engineers

Dayton, Ohio

Exact start dates will be determined at the time of selection and in coordination with the selected candidate. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis and fellowships will be filled as qualified candidates are identified.

Faculty appointments are generally for 10-12 weeks during the summer, but appointments during the academic year are also available. Appointments may be extended depending on funding availability, project assignment, program rules, and availability of the participant.

• Stipend to be determined by AFIT. Stipends are typically based on the participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location
• Health Insurance Supplement:
  Participants are eligible to purchase health insurance through ORISE
• Relocation Allowance
• Training and Travel Allowance

The mission of the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is to help build America's airpower, by educating military and civilian Airmen to innovatively accomplish the Air Force's core missions, in support of joint operations, more effectively, efficiently, sustainably and affordably. We provide unique defense-focused, research-enabled, multi-disciplinary advanced academic education, as well as globally delivering career-long, action-based, functional professional continuing education, over a continuum of learning, on-command and on-demand.

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This program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge…