This class focused on the applications of computation for structural design and computation. Problem sets involved ...
As a continutation of the work I co-authored a paper with Kenny Cheung at NASA Ames Reseach Center under the title of Reconfigurable Cellular Composite Structures for Lighter than Air Vehicles with Scalable Size and Endurance. The paper was accepted and presented at the AIAA Aviation Forum in Denver, Colorado in June 2017.
The work involved carrying out a multi-objective optimization using Python to find the optimal airship structure in order to maximise bouyancy and minimise bending stress. To carry this out I utilized XFoil to gather data for the drag of various sized airships, I imported the resulting data into Grasshopper to visualize the results as well as plotting them using matplotlib.