FlightStream Publications

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This discussion is a running list of FlightStream publications. Our team will routinely update this thread. If you are unsure whether an investigation of interest is available, please reach out to our team directly.

1. Little, D. S., Majdalani, J., Hartfield, R. J., & Ahuja, V. (2025). Improved prediction of propeller tonal noise through integration of Hanson's model into a modern surface-vorticity panel code. Aerospace Science and Technology, 164, 110381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2025.110381
2. Enriquez, D. (2025) Rapid Aerodynamic Load Predictions on an Orbital Reentry Vehicle Through All Mach Number Regimes
3. Shahjahan, S. (2025) Aerodynamic Performance Evaluation of a Small UAS Using Multi-Fidelity Numerical Analyses
4. Golubev. (2025) Multi-Fidelity Analysis of LCO Control in Modified Glauert Airfoil
5. Little, D. S. (2025) Rapid Prediction of Propeller Tonal Noise Using an Integrated Surface-Vorticity Panel Code
6. Ahuja, V. (2025) Transonic Store-Separation Analysis Using a Compressible Surface-Vorticity Panel Method
7. DiMaggio, G. (2025) Transition Aero-Propulsive Analysis of a Tilt-Wing eVTOL Aircraft Using a Surface-Vorticity Solver
8. Goates, C. (2025) Validation of the FlightStream Supersonic Prandtl-Glauert Panel Solver
9. de Ruiter, L. (2020) Weight & Balance Estimation with Automated Structural Analysis for Subscale Flight Models
10. Fortin, F. (2024) Comparison of Aerodynamic Loads for a Rotor in Hover using two Surface-Vorticity Approaches
11. Fortin, F. (2024) Rapid Propeller Performance Estimation for eVTOL-Class Aircraft using a Surface- Vorticity Flow Solver
12. Zhang, Y. (2024) Mid-Fidelity Numerical calculation of XV-15 Proprotor
13. Ischold, P. (2023) Parametric Optimization Of A Wing-Fuselage System Using A Vorticity-Based Panel Solver
14. Beyne, E. (2023) Aerodynamic Analysis of a Propeller-Powered Strut-Braced Wing
15. Brown, G. (2023) The Stopped Rotor - A New Design
16. Ahuja, V. (2023) Three-dimensional Viscous Coupling & Flow Separation Enhancements to an Inviscid Surface Vorticity Solver
17. Pyszka, J. (2023) Boundary Layer Ingestion Modeling in Aircraft Conceptual Preliminary Design
18. Shivaranjani, S. (2023) Experimental Validation of a Surface Vorticity Flow Solver for Swept Wings
19. Shivaranjani, S. (2023) Experimental Validation of Integral Boundary Layer Coupledwith a Surface Vorticity Solver
20. Ahuja, V. (2023) Comparison of Aerodynamic Analysis Tools Applied to a Propeller-Blown Wing
21. Saravanan, B. (2023) Ground Effects on the Aerodynamics of Tailless Aircraft – A Numerical Study
22. DiMaggio, G. (2023) Hybrid Wing Body Pitch Control with a Surface-Vorticity Solver
23. Soikkeli, J. (2023) Cascaded nonlinear dynamic inversion applied to a fixed-wing distributed electric propulsion aircraft
24. Wang, X. (2023) Prediction of Duct Airfoil Aerodynamics using Surface Vorticity
25. Simmons, B. (2023) Validation of a Mid-Fidelity Approach for Aircraft Stability and Control Characteristics
26. DiMaggio, G. (2023) Solid Rocket Motor Internal Ballistics Using a Vortex Particle Method
27. Huynh, D. (2023) Application of a Semi-Empircal Method to Model Subsonic Vortex Lift over Sharp Leading-Edge Delta Wings
28. Collins, W. (2023) Pressure Distributions for Bodies of Revolution in Compressible Flows Using an Advanced Panel Method
29. Pastor, G. (2022) Numerical and Experimental Testing of a Coaxial Propeller for UAM Applications
30. Kulkarni, A. (2022) Similitude Augmentation in Subscale Flight Test Model Design
31. Hoogreef, M. (2022) Flight dynamics and control assessment for differential thrust aircraft in engine inoperative conditions including aero‑propulsive effects
32. DiMaggio, G. (2022) Rapid Prediction of Hybrid Wing Body Aerodynamics
33. Julian A. Pabon, Xinyu Gao, Jielong Cai and Sidaard Gunasekaran. (2024) Experimental Investigation of a Novel Morphing Wing Design. AIAA Scitech Forum. Orlando, FL.
34. Cai, J., Guzman, C., Schutter. E., Gunasekaran, S. (2024). On the Linear Superposition of Wing and Propeller Performance in a Wing Embedded Propeller System. AIAA Scitech Forum. Orlando, FL.
35. Shahjahan, S., Gong, A., Moore, A., & Verstraete, D. (2024). Optimisation of proprotors for tilt-wing eVTOL aircraft. In Aerospace Science and Technology (Vol. 144, p. 108835). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2023.108835
36. Ahuja, V., Little, D. S., Majdalani, J., & Hartfield, R. J. (2022). On the prediction of noise generated by Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles. II. implementation of the FARASSAT F1A formulation into a modern surface-vorticity panel solver. Physics of Fluids, 34(11). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0105002
37. Little, D. S., Majdalani, J., Hartfield, R. J., Jr., & Ahuja, V. (2022). On the prediction of noise generated by urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles. I. Integration of fundamental acoustic metrics. In Physics of Fluids (Vol. 34, Issue 11). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0124134
38. DiMaggio, G. A., Hartfield, R. J., Majdalani, J., & Ahuja, V. (2022). Solid Rocket Motor Internal Ballistics with a Surface-Vorticity Solver. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1898
39. DiMaggio, G. A., Hartfield, R. J., Jr., Majdalani, J., & Ahuja, V. (2021). Solid rocket motor internal ballistics using an enhanced surface-vorticity panel technique. In Physics of Fluids (Vol. 33, Issue 10). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0069075
40. Pastor, G., Hartfield, R., & Ahuja, V. (2022). Expedited Solutions for Propeller Analysis. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1158
41. Pastor, G., Hartfield, R., Dozier, G., Carpenter, M., & Ahuja, V. (2022). Statistically Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Aerospace Design Applications. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3789
42. Pastor, G., Hartfield, R., Ahuja, V., & McClearen, J. (2022). Numerical and Experimental Testing of a Coaxial Propeller for UAM Applications. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3683
43. DiMaggio, G. A., Hartfield, R. J., & Ahuja, V. (2022). Rapid Prediction of Hybrid Wing Body Aerodynamics. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3298
44. Ahuja, V., Little, D. S., Majdalani, J., & Hartfield, R. (2022). Integrated Computational Aeroacoustics for UAM Design. Part 1. Farassat F1A Formulation. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3954
45. Little, D. S., Majdalani, J., Hartfield, R., & Ahuja, V. (2022). Integrated Computational Aeroacoustics for UAM Design. Part 2. Noise Characterization Metrics. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3957
46. Trifari, V., De Marco, A., Di Stasio, M., Ruocco, M., Nicolosi, F., Grazioso, G., Ahuja, V., & Hartfield, R. (2022). An aircraft design workflow using the automatic knowledge-based modelling tool JPAD Modeller. In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3737
47. Ahuja, V., & Hartfield, R. J. (2022). Reduced-Order Aerodynamics with the Method of Integrated Circulation. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0005
48. Fei, X. (2019). Evaluation of a Commercial Surface Vorticity Flow Solver for the Modeling of Propeller-Wing Interaction. In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-1046
49. Quitter, Julius & Marino, Matthew & Bauschat, J.-Michael. (2019). Highly Non-Planar Aircraft Configurations: Estimation of Flight Mechanical Derivatives Using Low-Order Methods.
50. Sandoz, B., Ahuja, V., & Hartfield, R. J. (2018). Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics of a V/STOL Tilt-wing Four-Propeller Transport Model using a Surface Vorticity Flow Solver. In 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-2070
51. Johnson, S., Hartfield, R. J., van Dommelen, D., & Ahuja, V. (2018). Investigation of the Static Longitudinal Characteristics of a Full-Scale Light Single-Engine Airplane using a Surface Vorticity Solver. In 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-1259
52. Ahuja, V., Hartfield, R. J., & Burkhalter, J. E. (2017). Optimizing Engine Placement on an Aircraft Wing using Bio-mimetic optimization and FlightStreamTM. In 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-0235
53. Carpenter, M., Hartfield, R. J., & Ahuja, V. (2017). Surrogate Models for Surface Vorticity. In 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-1418
54. Olson, E. D., & Albertson, C. W. (2016). Aircraft High-Lift Aerodynamic Analysis Using a Surface-Vorticity Solver. In 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2016-0779
55. Ahuja, V., & Hartfield, R. J. (2016). Aerodynamic Loads over Arbitrary Bodies by Method of Integrated Circulation. In Journal of Aircraft (Vol. 53, Issue 6, pp. 1719–1730). American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). https://doi.org/10.2514/1.c033619
56. Ahuja, V., & Hartfield, R. (2015). Predicting the Aero Loads Behind a Propeller in the Presence of a Wing Using Flightstream. In 15th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference. 15th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2015-2734
57. King, L., Hartfield, R. J., & Ahuja, V. (2015). Aerodynamic Optimization of Integrated Wing-Engine Geometry using an Unstructured Vorticity Solver. In 33rd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference. 33rd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2015-2880
58. Enriquez, D. E., “Validation of a X‑15 Using a Rapid Aerodynamic Solver,” AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, AIAA Paper 2025‑3506, published online 16 July 2025 (doi: 10.2514/6.2025‑3506)
59. Chausse, J., “High Lift Aerodynamics with a Viscous‑Coupled Panel Method,” AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, AIAA Paper 2025‑3578, published online 16 July 2025

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60. G. F. Neves, “Aerodynamic Design and Analysis of an Interchangeable Aircraft Model for Propeller Integration and Aeropropulsive Studies,” AIAA Paper 2025‑3027, 2025. doi: 10.2514/6.2025‑3027.