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On November 11, 2023, U of T Engineering students gathered in the basement of the Sandford Fleming Building — known to many as The Pit — to witness the deployment of HERON Mk. II into space. The 3U CubeSat satellite, […]
U of T Engineering researchers have partnered with Siemens Energy to tackle a key challenge in the energy sector: sustainable energy conversion for propulsion and power generation – such as developing gas turbine engines that can run on sustainable energy […]
For aviation, the path to reduced climate change impact and eventually net-zero carbon dioxide emissions is clear. We must replace fossil fuels with net-zero energy sources, and improve aircraft energy efficiency. The latter is essential given that future energy sources […]
Faculty Spotlight
Professor D.W. Zingg
Computational Aerodynamics Laboratory
Research Focus
• To advance the state of the art in algorithms for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as well as aerodynamic shape optimization and aerostructural optimization
• To apply these algorithms to the development of drag reduction techniques and the next generation of aircraft with greatly reduced greenhouse gas emissions per passenger-km
Current Projects
• Investigation of unconventional aircraft configurations, such as the hybrid wing-body and the truss-braced wing through aerodynamic shape optimization and multidisciplinary design optimization
• Development of novel high-order summation-by-parts operators applicable to unstructured meshes, including entropy-stable schemes
