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The Aerospace Mechanics and Engineering Systems (AEMS) research group focuses on the development and operations of uncrewed aircraft systems and analyzing the performance of aeronautical systems in extreme environments.
AEMS is a member lab of the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles (RECUV) and partners with the Integrated Remote and In-Situ Sensing (IRISS) to work in projects focused on atmospheric science. The AEMS lab has supported work studying tornadogenesis (TORUS), highway pollution transport (AQUILA), Atlantic trade winds (ATOMIC), and stratospheric turbulence (HYFLITS). The RAAVEN, is the primary aircraft used by the AEMS lab for data collection.
Outside of fieldwork, AEMS researchers seek to understand complex flow behavior through wind tunnel experiment and numerical simulation. The lab has access to university wind tunnel facilities including the ITLL Education Wind Tunnel and the Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory run by the Farnsworth Lab. To simulate conditions that cannot be replicated in a wind tunnel environments, the AEMS lab uses computational fluid dynamics. The AEMS lab uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate conditions that cannot be replicated in wind tunnel environments. CFD is also used to study aircraft aerodynamism and simulate complex fluid-structure interactions.
