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Overview

Rafael Palacios is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and has a research focus within the field of Engineering, with a significant body of work spanning aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, control and systems engineering, civil and structural engineering, and environmental engineering.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Aeroelasticity and Vibration Control
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems
  • Wind Energy Research and Development

Palacios has contributed to numerous publications examining fluid dynamics, aeroelasticity, and wind energy, with recent papers highlighting various aspects of these topics. Selected recent works include:

  • "Assessment of low-altitude atmospheric turbulence models for aircraft aeroelasticity," 2020, Journal of Fluids and Structures
  • "WInc3D: A novel framework for turbulence-resolving simulations of wind farm wake interactions," 2020, Wind Energy
  • "Flutter Predictions for Very Flexible Wing Wind Tunnel Test," 2022, Journal of Aircraft
  • "Aerodynamic-driven topology optimization of compliant airfoils," 2020, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  • "Aeroelastic Control and Estimation with a Minimal Nonlinear Modal Description," 2021, AIAA Journal

Research collaboration is a notable aspect of Palacios's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Andrew Wynn
  • Norberto Goizueta
  • Alvaro Cea
  • Pedro Gomes
  • Marc Artola

The scholar publishes extensively in specific venues associated with aerospace and mechanical engineering. Common publication venues are:

  • AIAA Journal
  • AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Aircraft

In addition to papers, Palacios has authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Dynamics of Flexible Aircraft (2023).

Best Publications

  • Applications of the unsteady vortex-lattice method in aircraft aeroelasticity and flight dynamics

    J Murua;R Palacios;Jmr Graham

  • Structural and Aerodynamic Models in Nonlinear Flight Dynamics of Very Flexible Aircraft

    Rafael Palacios;Joseba Murua;Robert Cook

  • Robust Gust Alleviation and Stabilization of Very Flexible Aircraft

    Robert G. Cook;Rafael Palacios;Paul Goulart

  • Computational Aeroelasticity Framework for Analyzing Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles

    Satish Kumar Chimakurthi;Jian Tang;Rafael Palacios;Carlos E. S. Cesnik

  • Reexamined Structural Design Procedures for Very Flexible Aircraft

    Carlos E.S. Cesnik;Rafael Palacios;Eric Y. Reichenbach

  • Induced-Drag Calculations in the Unsteady Vortex Lattice Method

    Robert J. S. Simpson;Rafael Palacios;Joseba Murua

  • Reduced-Order Aeroelastic Models for Dynamics of Maneuvering Flexible Aircraft

    Henrik Hesse;Rafael Palacios

  • Automatic Processing of Brazilian Bank Checks

    Rafael Palacios;Anshu Sinha;Amar Gupta

  • Cross-sectional analysis of nonhomogeneous anisotropic active slender structures

    Rafael Palacios;Carlos E. S. Cesnik

  • Assessment of Wake-Tail Interference Effects on the Dynamics of Flexible Aircraft

    Joseba Murua;Rafael Palacios;J. Michael R. Graham

  • SHARPy: A dynamic aeroelastic simulation toolbox for very flexible aircraft and wind turbines

    Alfonso del Carre;Arturo Muñoz-Simón;Norberto Goizueta;Rafael Palacios

  • Assessment of strategies for correcting linear unsteady aerodynamics using CFD or experimental results

    R Palacios;H Climent;A Karlsson;B Winzell

  • Static Nonlinear Aeroelasticity of Flexible Slender Wings in Compressible Flow

    Rafael Palacios;Carlos E. S. Cesnik

  • A moderate deflection composite helicopter rotor blade model with an improved cross-sectional analysis

    Peretz P. Friedmann;Bryan Glaz;Rafael Palacios

  • Leading- and trailing-edge effects on the aeromechanics of membrane aerofoils

    Sara Arbós-Torrent;Bharathram Ganapathisubramani;Rafael Palacios

  • Consistent structural linearisation in flexible-body dynamics with large rigid-body motion

    Henrik Hesse;Rafael Palacios

  • Nonlinear normal modes in an intrinsic theory of anisotropic beams

    Rafael Palacios

  • Nonlinear model reduction for flexible aircraft control design

    A. Da Ronch;K. J. Badcock;Y. Wang;A. Wynn

  • Generalized thick strip modelling for vortex-induced vibration of long flexible cylinders

    Y. Bao;R. Palacios;M. Graham;S. Sherwin

  • Nonlinear Modal Aeroservoelastic Analysis Framework for Flexible Aircraft

    Yinan Wang;Andrew Wynn;Rafael Palacios

  • Analytical procedure to obtain internal parameters from performance curves of commercial thermoelectric modules

    R. Palacios;A. Arenas;R.R. Pecharromán;F.L. Pagola

  • Aerodynamic load control in horizontal axis wind turbines with combined aeroelastic tailoring and trailing‐edge flaps

    Bing Feng Ng;Rafael Palacios;Eric C. Kerrigan;J. Michael R. Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos E. S. Cesnik
Carlos E. S. Cesnik University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric C. Kerrigan
Eric C. Kerrigan Imperial College London
Ken Badcock
Ken Badcock University of Liverpool
Paul J. Goulart
Paul J. Goulart University of Oxford
Spencer J. Sherwin
Spencer J. Sherwin Imperial College London
Juan J. Alonso
Juan J. Alonso Stanford University
Wei Shyy
Wei Shyy Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Joaquim Peiró
Joaquim Peiró Imperial College London
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani University of Southampton

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