This project is being collaborated with The Boeing Aircraft Company, NASA, Texas A&M, Utah State University, and The University of Michigan. The project aims to explore the feasibility of in-flight outer mold line morphing to control sonic boom loudness. My contributions to the project have been to develop an automated equivalent area analysis tool to identify locations sensitive to equivalent area changes in boom loudness. I have collaborated with industry leaders from Boeing and Texas A&M to develop the code and share my findings.
More information on the project will be published after SciTech 2025 when the project results have been published publicly.
This project is a follow on to the NASA ULI. More information on the NASA ULI can be found on the USU AeroLab website linked bellow.