Airbus, nonlinear dynamics, and the A380

Over the past decade Airbus' Landing Gear Systems Group has been increasing its use of computer-based modeling and simulation technologies. The use of dynamical systems theory is playing an increasingly important role in identifying stability boundaries very quickly and efficiently. Etienne...

Behind the Scenes of DSWeb

Jim and James share some insight on what goes on behind the scenes at SIAM for DSWeb.

Challenges and Dynamics at Dynetics

Bryan Rasmussen gives us some insight about his research activities on dynamical systems at the engineering company Dynetics.

Dynamical Systems in Jet Engines: A Symmetry-Based Approach

Prashant Mehta, Gregory Hagen and Andrzej Banaszuk explain how dynamical systems theory is used in the design of jet engines at United Technologies Research Center.

Dynamical Systems Theory and Industrial Research

Slaven Peles is a Senior Research Engineer with United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford, CT. Before joining United Technologies in 2007 he worked as a postdoc at UCSB and was a Joseph Ford Fellow at Georgia Tech. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manitoba in...

Experiment Involving Problem-Solving Techniques

(humor) A group of scientists were doing an investigation into problem-solving techniques, and constructed an experiment involving a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician.

Industrial experience at Philips Research Eindhoven

From May 2000 till March 2002 Gerton Lunter worked in the video signal processing group at Philips Natuurkundig Laboriatorium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He talked to Hinke Osinga for DSWeb Magazine about what it was like to work in such a commercial research environment.

Industry experience at The Aerospace Corporation

Lael Fisher, a recent PhD from Northwestern University, has found a professional home in the Navigation and Geopositioning Systems Department at The Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles, California. Recently, Chad Topaz had the opportunity to ask Lael about her transition, which includes a...

Lessons learned on a ten year detour

Jim Graham is a partner at Scimatic Software, a commercial enterprise producing software for scientists. He recounts the lessons learned in the many twists and turns of his career after graduating as a particle physicist.

Professional Feature - Ann Almgren

Ann Almgren is a Senior Scientist in the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Department Head of Applied Mathematics in the Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division.

Taking Delay Equation Dynamics to the Cutting Edge

The importance of machining to the aerospace industry has led to the partnering of Dr. Brian Mann at Duke University with Boeing researchers Ryan Hanks, Amy Helvey, and Dr. Keith Young who are investigating the dynamics of a machining process called milling.

Welcome to academia after 30 years in industry

After 30 years of working at Harwell Laboratory in Oxfordshire, Andrew Cliffe left his position as a Senior Consultant with Serco Assurance for a Professorship at the University of Nottingham. Hinke Osinga asks him about the differences between working in a company and at a university and...