Wang Presented Hampton Roads Section Inaugural Laurence D. Leavitt Lecture

摘要

AIAA Hampton Roads Section (HRS) 2019 Engineer of the Year, Dr. Li Wang, presented the HRS Inaugural Laurence D. Leavitt Lecture on 7 March, at NASA Langley. Dr. Wang is a Senior Research Engineer at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) and physically works at the Computational AeroSciences Branch at NASA Langley. Dr. Wang has been leading research on the development of a practical and efficient design optimization tool for rotorcraft aeromechanics. She has created an integrated methodology to couple state-of-art computational fluid dynamics and comprehensive rotorcraft analysis, and to enable multidisciplinary sensitivity analysis for high-fidelity design optimization. Dr. Wang presented an overview of the multidisciplinary analysis and design optimization framework applied to rotorcraft applications. Prior to the lecture, Bobby Berrier presented a special tribute to Laurence D. Leavitt, for whom this annual lecture will be named henceforth.