Michigan/AFRL/Boeing Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences (MAB-CCAS)

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing and an Aero-led team have established the Michigan/AFRL/Boeing Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences (MAB-CCAS). Established in April 2006, with a five-year funding, the MAB-CCAS' mission is to develop, sustain and amplify an internationally recognized center of excellence in computational aeronautical sciences research and education through strategic, robust interaction between the faculty and students and AFRL. The MAB-CCAS' overall scope includes:

• Large scale, high resolution, multi-physics modeling and simulation
• Validation, verification and uncertainty assessment in computational sciences
• Software tool development

The MACCAS consists of the following Aerospace Enginering faculty: Iain Boyd, Carlos Cesnik, Werner Dahm, Peretz Friedmann, Ken Powell, Phil Roe, Wei Shyy, and Bram van Leer. Three faculty colleagues from Michigan State University are members of the MAB-CCAS.

The current research emphasis of MAB-CCAS includes issues motivated by high speed flight vehicles and micro air vehicles, with specific tasks investigating:

• numerical techniques for high speed flows and shocks
• shock and boundary layer interactions
• simulation and modeling of plasma and aerothermodynamics
• flapping wing aerodynamics
• computational techniques for fluid-structure interactions
• simulation and modeling of dielectric barrier actuators