Overview of the Research Center
Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Aerospace Machinery at Southeast University relies on the double first-class disciplines of "Mechanical Engineering" and "Materials Science" for discipline construction and talent cultivation. The center currently has 15 full-time faculty members, including 1 National Distinguished Young Scholar, 1 New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education, 2 Young Talents Supported by the China Association for Science and Technology, 1 Jiangsu Distinguished Young Scholar, 3 Jiangsu Excellent Young Scholars, 2 Talents of the Six Talent Peaks Program in Jiangsu Province, and 1 Talent of the Qinglan Project in Jiangsu Province. It also has more than 60 master's and doctoral students with multidisciplinary professional backgrounds in mechanical engineering, aerospace, mechanics, materials and other fields. In recent years, the center has carried out in-depth and systematic research on advanced aircraft overall design, aircraft structure and dynamic design, aero-engine dynamic design and their major engineering applications, and its research achievements have been applied in the development of multiple types of aerospace equipment in China.
The center undertakes more than 50 research projects, including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, basic theoretical topics of national major science and technology special projects, key technology research of national major science and technology special projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, government shared technology projects, and the National Defense Basic Research Program. It has completed more than 100 key technology research projects for aerospace mechanical equipment, and constructed an achievement system for aerospace mechanical equipment consisting of theoretical methods, key technologies and special software. The center has published more than 200 SCI/EI papers in journals such as AIAA Journals, ASME Journals, Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica and Journal of Astronautics, been granted more than 70 invention patents, and registered more than 30 software copyrights. It has presided over and won one First Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award, one First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of China Instrument and Control Society, one Second Prize of National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award, and one Second Prize of Ordnance Science and Technology Progress Award respectively.
Research Features
Facing the major demands of the aerospace and low-altitude economy fields, the center focuses on the bottleneck problems in the development of advanced aircraft and carries out research on core key technologies. The main research directions of the center include advanced aircraft overall design, aircraft structure and dynamic design, aero-engine dynamic design, aircraft intelligent control, and aircraft system integration and verification. It has mastered the core key technologies from aircraft design, prototype trial production, system integration to test verification, and possesses the full-process R&D capability of aircraft.
The center is committed to breaking through the core key technologies in advanced aerodynamic layout design, structural lightweighting, intelligent control, high reliability and low cost of aircraft. Through deepening industry-university-research collaborative innovation, it provides important technical support for cultivating new productive forces of the low-altitude economy in Jiangsu Province and promoting the industrial development of aerospace equipment.
Talent Cultivation
The center has established good cooperative relations with aerospace research institutions such as China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, China Aero Engine Group Corporation, and China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. It attaches great importance to and encourages international and domestic academic exchanges: many faculty members and students have studied abroad, pursued further studies, conducted short-term exchanges and participated in international academic conferences. The center has also built sound academic exchange and cooperation ties with well-known foreign universities, including Northwestern University, New York University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Clemson University, University of Alabama in the United States, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and Monash University in Australia. All doctoral students have overseas exchange experience, and many master's students have gone abroad to pursue doctoral degrees.
All graduated doctoral students of the center have taken up teaching positions in universities or pursued further studies in top overseas universities, including Southeast University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Technical University of Munich, and others. Master's graduates are mostly employed in large state-owned enterprises, central enterprises and aerospace institutions, including the 14th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, the 702nd Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, the 10th Research Institute of the First Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the 509th Research Institute of the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the 301st Research Institute of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Huawei, SAIC Motor and so on.
Main Research Directions
(I) Advanced Aircraft Overall Design
1. Innovation of advanced aircraft configurations and overall schemes
2. Comprehensive optimization of overall performance based on multi-disciplinary coupling
3. Overall integration and engineering design verification of advanced aircraft
(II) Aircraft Structure and Dynamic Design
1. Forward prediction and inverse identification of trans-domain unsteady aerodynamic loads
2.Characterization of complex time-varying structures and multi-field coupling analysis methods
3.Aeroelastic analysis and structural optimization design
(III) Structural Lightweight Technology
1. Characterization methods for the reusability of advanced composite materials
2. Multi-scale analysis methods for aircraft composite structures
3. Integrated design of lightweight load-bearing aircraft structures
(IV) Power Technology for Aerospace Equipment
1. High-precision modeling methods for complete aero-engines
2. Simulative design of complete aero-engines and analysis of their vibration characteristics
3. Identification of typical vibration sources and fault diagnosis
Research Team
Director: Qingguo Fei
Core Members: Peiwei Zhang,Yanbin Li,Dahai Zhang, Qiang Chen,Fangzhou Lu, Peifei Xu, Rui Zhu, Dong Jiang, Xiaochen Hang, Junzeng He
