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Michael J. Aftosmis

Michael J. Aftosmis

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
43
Citations
5599
World Ranking
6315
National Ranking
1737

Overview

Michael J. Aftosmis is affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering, with a particular focus on aerospace engineering and computational mechanics. The scientist's main fields of study include engineering, with subfields encompassing aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, astronomy and astrophysics, applied mathematics, and atmospheric science.

The primary research topics addressed by Michael J. Aftosmis cover a variety of themes related to fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and planetary science. These include computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, gas dynamics and kinetic theory, astro and planetary science, meteorological phenomena and simulations, wind and air flow studies, and aerospace and aviation technology.

Michael J. Aftosmis has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications across notable scientific venues, including multiple appearances in the AIAA Aviation Forum series. The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM
  • Acta Astronautica
  • Experiments in Fluids
  • AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum

The following is a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael J. Aftosmis:

  • Risk assessment for asteroid impact threat scenarios, 2023, Acta Astronautica
  • Aerodynamics of inclined cylindrical bodies free-flying in a hypersonic flowfield, 2021, Experiments in Fluids
  • Cartesian Mesh Simulations for the Third AIAA Sonic Boom Prediction Workshop, 2021, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • Cartesian Mesh Simulations for the Third AIAA Sonic Boom Prediction Workshop, 2021, Journal of Aircraft
  • Goal-Oriented Discretization Error Control in Coupled Nearfield-Farfield Low-Boom Simulations, 2022, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum

Michael J. Aftosmis has collaborated extensively with colleagues in related fields. Frequent co-authors include Marian Nemec, Wade M. Spurlock, Jonathan J. Chiew, David Rodriguez, and Lorien Wheeler.

Best Publications

  • Robust and efficient Cartesian mesh generation for component-based geometry

    M. J. Aftosmis;M. J. Berger;J. E. Melton

  • A Parallel Multilevel Method for Adaptively Refined Cartesian Grids with Embedded Boundaries

    M. J. Aftosmis;M. J. Berger;G. Adomavicius

  • Analysis of Slope Limiters on Irregular Grids

    Marsha Berger;Michael J. Aftosmis

  • Solution adaptive cartesian grid methods for aerodynamic flows with complex geometries

    Michael J. Aftosmis

  • Behavior of linear reconstruction techniques on unstructured meshes

    Michael Aftosmis;Datta Gaitonde;Theodore S. Tavares

  • Adjoint-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Complex Geometries

    Marian Nemec;Michael Aftosmis;Mathias Wintzer

  • Applications of Space-Filling-Curves to Cartesian Methods for CFD

    Michael J. Aftosmis;Marsha J. Berger;Scott M. Murman

  • 3D applications of a Cartesian grid Euler method

    John E. Melton;Marsha J. Berger;Michael J. Aftosmis;Michael D. Wong

  • Progress Towards a Cartesian Cut-Cell Method for Viscous Compressible Flow

    Marsha J. Berger;Michael J. Aftosmis

  • Simulations of 6-DOF Motion with a Cartesian Method

    Scott M. Murman;Michael J. Aftosmis;Marsha J. Berger;Dochan Kwak

  • Adjoint Error Estimation and Adaptive Refinement for Embedded-Boundary Cartesian Meshes

    Marian Nemec;Michael Aftosmis

  • Implicit approaches for moving boundaries in a 3-D Cartesian method

    Scott M. Murman;Michael J. Aftosmis;Marsha J. Berger

  • Adaptation and surface modeling for cartesian mesh methods

    M. J. Aftosmis;J. E. Melton;M. J. Berger

  • On the Accuracy, Stability, and Monotonicity of Various Reconstruction Algorithms for Unstructured Meshes

    Michael Aftosmis;Datta Gaitonde;Theodore S. Tavares

  • Adjoint-based low-boom design with Cart3D (Invited)

    Michael Aftosmis;Marian Nemec;Susan Cliff

  • Multilevel Error Estimation and Adaptive h-Refinement for Cartesian Meshes with Embedded Boundaries

    M. J. Aftosmis;M. J. Berger

  • High Resolution Aerospace Applications Using the NASA Columbia Supercomputer

    Dimitri J. Mavriplis;Michael J. Aftosmis;Marsha Berger

  • Elastically Shaped Wing Optimization and Aircraft Concept for Improved Cruise Efficiency

    Nhan Nguyen;Khanh Trinh;Kevin Reynolds;James Kless

  • Adjoint-based adaptive mesh refinement for sonic boom prediction

    Mathias Wintzer;Marian Nemec;Michael J. Aftosmis

  • Parallel Adjoint Framework for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization of Component-Based Geometry

    Marian Nemec;Michael J. Aftosmis

Frequent Co-Authors

Marsha Berger
Marsha Berger New York University
Stuart E. Rogers
Stuart E. Rogers Ames Research Center
Rupak Biswas
Rupak Biswas Ames Research Center
Datta V. Gaitonde
Datta V. Gaitonde The Ohio State University
Randall J. LeVeque
Randall J. LeVeque University of Washington
Gediminas Adomavicius
Gediminas Adomavicius University of Minnesota
Joseph Shang
Joseph Shang Wright State University
Sergey Macheret
Sergey Macheret Purdue University West Lafayette
Mikhail N. Shneider
Mikhail N. Shneider Princeton University
Vasily V. Titov
Vasily V. Titov Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

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