The AAIMS team, led by Prof. A. OMAR, is composed of researchers with skills in aerospace, automotive, mechanical engineering, materials science, and modelling. Research topics include structural materials and their manufacturing processes, computational fluid dynamics, power engineering, experimental fluid dynamics, thermal science, aerial and road vehicles aerodynamics, wind turbine aerodynamics and satellite.
The main topics addressed by the AAIMS’s team:
- Smart vehicles, structures, and materials
- Multiphasic modelling and simulation for behavior of multiscale (nano, micro, and macro) of materials, structures, and process
- Experimental characterization of materials (elaboration, mechanical tests, microstructural tests, thermal tests, fatigue and fracture tests, height strain rate deformation...)
- Light-weighting materials for automotive, aeronautics, and energetics applications
- Fatigue behavior of mechanical structure such as welded and riveted joints
- Structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing applied to automotive, aerospace, industries
- Powder metallurgy, composite material, material for refrigeration applications and advanced materials processing and design of high carbon Steels by liquid phase sintering, improvement of mechanical properties of steel alloy, processing and design, and modelling structure optimization
- Drag reduction methods for road vehicles and optimization of low Reynolds number airfoils and wings
- Wind turbine aerodynamics and flow control techniques for wind turbine rotor blades
- Computational fluid Dynamics for aerospace and automotive applications