ABOUT US   Our People :: Michael K. Yu
Dr. Michael K. Yu,   Staff Associate

Tel.: 609.538.0444 ext 115

Background
  • Joined CDI in 2005
  • D.Sc., Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005
Research Interests
  • Flight simulation tool development. CHARM upgrade and development. Modeling and Simulation of rotorcraft systems.
  • CSD-CFD coupled solution. Loose and tight coupled solution using various communication approaches between RCAS and CHARM.
  • Airfoil dynamic stall model development and analysis.
  • Aircraft flight dynamics. Dynamics, vibration and impact analysis of multi-body system.
Professional Affiliations and Honors
  • Full member, Sigma Xi
  • Senior Member, and elected member of Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee, AIAA
  • Member, elected member of Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Committee, and Chair of Annual Forum AVF Technical Sessions (2010, 2011), AHS
  • Member, ASME
  • Recipient of 2004 Vertical Flight Foundation Scholarship Award
  • Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Selected Publications
  • "High Fidelity Brownout Model for Real-time flight Simulation and Trainers", proceedings of the 65th American Helicopter Society Annual forum, Dallas, Texas, USA, May 27-29, 2009 (with Dan Wachspress and et al)
  • "Application of State-Space Wake Models to Full and Partial Ground Effect" proceedings of the 2nd International Basic Research Conference on Rotorcraft Technology, Nanjing, China, November 7 - 9, 2005 (with D. A. Peters)
  • "Nonlinear State-Space Modeling of Dynamic Ground Effect" Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 50, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 259 - 268 (with D. A. Peters).
  • "Use of Potential Flow State-Space Inflow Modeling for Mass Source Rotors" Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 108, No. 1085, July 2004, pp. 333 - 344 (with D. A. Peters)
  • "Linearization and Periodic Impact Response of a Vehicle-Passenger System" Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 272, Issue 1-2, April 22, 2004, pp. 267 - 286 (with A. C. J. Luo)