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How Do Air Taxis Fly into a Big Airport?
Using Detroit's airport as an example: the Class B airspace, approach corridors and wake turbulence an eVTOL has to avoid, and how holding points and turn radius shape a route.
How Hot Does the Ground Get When a Rocket Lands?
How a lander's engine plume heats the ground and the structure around it, how we measured temperature and flow in a plume heating test, and the network cables that burned through.
Cutting the Grid: The First Step in CFD
Using an ONERA M6 wing course project to explain why CFD needs a mesh, how structured and unstructured meshes differ, what y+ means, and how mesh quality affects the result.
MDF and IDF in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Using a sizing assignment for a two-passenger electric multicopter to explain how the MDF and IDF optimization architectures differ, what the weight spiral is, and where a simple model goes wrong.