2025
Optimization of logistical models for rocket-based cargo delivery
KC Nguyen, M Elkamel, L Rabelo, MP Kinzel
AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 1922, 2025
Multidisciplinary Design
Coupling CFD with structures, controls, thermal analysis, optimization, and systems engineering for aerospace vehicle design.
Related Projects
completed2022–2025
Rocket Cargo Optimization
Aerodynamic and logistical optimization supporting rapid, point-to-point rocket-based cargo delivery, coupling CFD-based aerodynamic modeling with supply-chain and logistics optimization.
U.S. Space Force
completed2015–2022
Sand-Blasting Nozzle Aeroacoustics
Computational fluid dynamics and computational aeroacoustics (CFD/CAA) analysis to optimize sandblasting nozzle designs for reduced noise generation.
ONR (SBIR, subcontract through NCE); Noise Control Engineering
completed2025–2026
Rocket Cargo Supply Chain
Modeling and optimization of the logistics supply chain underlying rocket-based cargo delivery concepts, building on CFAL's aerodynamic and systems-engineering work in rocket cargo delivery.
AFRL (Phase I SBIR)
Selected Publications
2025
Strategies in CFD Modeling: Hypersonic Cargo Delivery Gliders Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
SA Lopez, ZA Miles, MP Kinzel
AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 1923, 2025
2025
Machine Learning-Driven Aerodynamic Optimization of Bluff Body Vehicle Geometry
ZA Miles, KC Nguyen, MP Kinzel
AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025, 2025
2022
Optimization of an Elliptical Fairing in the Wake of a D-Shaped Bluff Body
L Amaya, G Loubimov, M Kinzel
Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting 85840, V002T05A030, 2022
2022
Optimization of Polo Kayak Design for Drag Reduction
J Gitzendanner, M Kinzel, L Perotti
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 67, 2022
2021
Design Optimization of a Boundary Layer Ingestion Propulsion System for a Long-Range, High-Altitude UAV
C Kaminski, M Kinzel
2020
A verification and validation study with respect to simulating undulating propulsion
G Loubimov, MP Kinzel
Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting 83730, V003T05A052, 2020