School of Aerospace Engineering

ARTLAB

Aerothermodynamics Research

and Technology Laboratory (ARTLAB)

The Aerothermodynamics Research and Technology Lab (ARTLAB) was established in 1993 under the directorship of Dr. Stephen M. Ruffin.  In this lab is part of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech and it conducts unique computational research for a wide variety of flowfields and applications.  The areas of application include:

· Propulsion/airframe integration

· Planetary entry aerothermodynamics

· Cartesian grid based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methodologies

· Rotor/fuselage interaction

· Store separation

· Computation of high speed flows in thermo-chemical non-equilibrium

· Drag reduction methods for low-speed and supersonic flight

· Scramjet inlet and exhaust nozzles

Typical sponsors for this work include a wide range of Industry, NASA and defense agencies:

· NASA , Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, National Rotorcraft Technology Center, NAVY, Raytheon, U.S. Army, CFDRC

The research conducted in ARTLAB is performed through collaboration with the sponsors, with on-going experimental research and with other research laboratories at Georgia Tech.  Substantial on-campus collaborations are conducted with the Space Systems Design Lab (SSDL), Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), The Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab and the Computational Aeroelasticity Lab (CAE) in the School of Aerospace Engineering.

The Cartesian grid based viscous CFD solver, NASCART-GT, was developed in the ARTLAB.  This code and several others are used in the lab for computational analysis.

Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Aerospace Engineering

270 Ferst Dr.

Atlanta, GA 30332-0150

To contact us:

E-mail: stephen.ruffin@ae.gatech.edu

Phone: 404-894-8200

Fax: 404-894-2760