Collaboration drives innovation
Meet our Network
With over 40 members across the faculties of Science, Engineering, Arts and Business, we are discovering the future of Aerospace
Dr. Craig Johansen
Co-founder and current director of the University of Calgary Aerospace Network.
Dr. Johansen completed his PhD at Queen's University in 2009 on the study of explosions and pulse detonation engine technology. He later worked at the NASA Langley Research Center on high-speed aerodynamics and propulsion using laser diagnostics. In 2011, he joined the University of Calgary to create the Aero-Core Group, which includes three laboratories on CFD, non-intrusive diagnostics and propulsion. Dr. Johansen enjoys undertaking challenging aerospace projects that inspire young engineers.
He is a winner of the Killam Emerging Research Leader award.
Active collaborations include Atlantis Research Labs, Lockheed Martin, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) and the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC).
Dr. Artem Korobenko
Co-founder of the University of Calgary Aerospace Network.
He also leads the Computational Fluids and Structural Mechanics Group (CFSM). Current research topics include fluid-structure interaction (FSI), dynamically-data-driven simulations (DDDS), damage modelling in aerospace composite structures, atmospheric flow modelling over complex terrains, numerical modeling of wind turbine and hydrokinetic turbine farms, cavitation flows around propellers and numerical modelling of high-speed compressible reactive flows. In collaboration with academic partners, his group has developed an in-house code suitable for large-scale computations that combines recent developments in stabilized finite element methods for fluid mechanics and advanced geometry modeling techniques based on isogeometric analysis (IGA). The challenges associated with large problem size, complex nonlinear geometrical and material models, highly turbulent flow and complicated multi-physics coupling are addressed by these new simulation tools.