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Daning Huang

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Center for Acoustics and Vibration

235A Hammond Building

daning@psu.edu

814-863-9714

Research Website

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Research Areas:

Computational and Experimental Fluid Dynamics; Structural Dynamics and Adaptive Structures; Vehicle Systems Engineering

Interest Areas:

Aeroelasticity and aerothermoelasticity, multidisciplinary design and optimization, reduced-order modeling, uncertainty quantification

 
 

 

Education

  • BE, Aircraft Design and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2013
  • ME, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 2014
  • Ph D, Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 2019

Publications

Books

  • Peretz P. Friedmann, George Lesieutre and Daning Huang, 2023, Structural Dynamics: Theory and Applications to Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Journal Articles

  • Panta Kundan, Daning Huang and Bo Cheng, 2024, "Touchless underwater wall-distance sensing via active proprioception of a robotic flapper", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 19, (2)
  • Aravinth Sadagopan, Daning Huang, Adam Jirasek, Jürgen Seidel, Anshuman Pandey and Katya M. Casper, 2023, "Hypersonic Fluid–Thermal–Structural Interaction of Cone–Slice–Ramp: Computations with Experimental Validation", AIAA Journal
  • Peiyuan Li, Yin Yu, Daning Huang, Ashish Sharma and Zhi-Hua Wang, 2023, "Regional heatwave prediction using Graph Neural Network and weather station data", Geophysical Research Letters
  • Carlos A. Vargas Venegas and Daning Huang, 2023, "Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Model for Expedient Hypersonic Aerothermal Prediction for Aerothermoelastic Analysis", AIAA Journal
  • Brian Coulter, Daning Huang and Zhenbo Wang, 2022, "Geometric Design of Hypersonic Vehicles for Optimal Mission Performance with High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Models", Journal of Aircraft
  • Daning Huang, Aravinth Sadagopan, Umran Duzel and Kyle M Hanquist, 2022, "Study of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interaction in High-Temperature High-Speed Flow using Multi-Fidelity Multi-Variate Surrogate", Journal of Fluids and Structures
  • Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2020, "An aerothermoelastic analysis framework with reduced-order modeling applied to composite panels in hypersonic flows", Journal of Fluids and Structures, 94, pp. 102927
  • Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2020, "A multi-objective optimization framework for hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling laws and its application to skin panels", AIAA Journal, 58, (7), pp. 3250-3257
  • Daning Huang, Peretz P. Friedmann and Tomer Rokita, 2019, "Aerothermoelastic Scaling Laws for Hypersonic Skin Panel Configurations with Arbitrary Flow Orientation", AIAA Journal, 57, (10), pp. 4377-4392
  • Daning Huang, Tomer Rokita and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2018, "Integrated aerothermoelastic analysis framework with application to skin panels", AIAA Journal, 56, (11), pp. 4562-4581
  • Yin Yu, Xinyuan Jiang, Daning Huang and Yan Li, , "PIDGeuN: Graph Neural Network-Enabled Transient Dynamics Prediction of Networked Microgrids Through Full-Field Measurement", IEEE Access

Conference Proceedings

  • Yufei Wu, Sabrullah Deniz, Zhenbo Wang and Daning Huang, 2024, "A Convex Approach to High-fidelity Landing Trajectory Optimization for Advanced Air Mobility"
  • Elliot Kimmel, Vishnu Sharma, Daning Huang, Venkat Raman and Peretz Friedmann, 2024, "Evaluation of Turbulent Shock Wave-Boundary Layer Interaction Modeling Capabilities in SU2 for Use in a Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Framework"
  • Jacob Rains, Daning Huang and Yi Wang, 2024, "Residual Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control for Nonlinear Aeroservoelastic Applications"
  • Jiwoo Song and Daning Huang, 2024, "Parametrized Global Linearization Models for Flutter Prediction"
  • Carlos Vargas Venegas and Daning Huang, 2024, "Development of Weak-Form Physics-Infused Reduced-Order Modeling With Applications"
  • Aravinth Sadagopan and Daning Huang, 2024, "Reduced-Order Modeling for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interaction of Cone-Slice-Ramp in High-Speed Flows"
  • Xinyuan Jiang, Yan Li and Daning Huang, 2024, "Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction of Transient Dynamics of Microgrids through Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control"
  • Abhinav Pandey, Daning Huang, Yin Yu and Junyi Geng, 2023, "Learning Koopman Operators with Control Using Bi-level Optimization", University Park, United States
  • Jiwoo Song and Daning Huang, 2023, "Modal Analysis of Spatiotemporal Data via Multi-fidelity Multi-variate Gaussian Processes"
  • Yin Yu, Seho Park, Daning Huang and Herschel Pangborn, 2023, "Graph-based Hierarchical Control of Electrified Aircraft Systems with Automated Timescale Decomposition"
  • Chen Wang, Dasong Gao, Kuan Xu, Junyi Geng, Yaoyu Hu, Yuheng Qiu, Bowen Li, Fan Yang, Moon Brady, Abhinav Pandey and Daning Huang, 2023, "PyPose: A Library for Robot Learning With Physics-Based Optimization"
  • Apoorva Nandakumar, Yan Li and Daning Huang, 2023, "Hierarchical Multi-Layered Sparse Identification for Prediction of Non-Linear Dynamics of Reconfigurable Microgrids"
  • Aravinth Sadagopan, Daning Huang, Maryam Safari and Chi-An Yeh, 2022, "Modal analysis of a shear layer in high-supersonic cavity flows using data-driven and operator-based resolvent analysis", APS DFD Annual Meetings
  • Carlos A. Vargas Venegas and Daning Huang, 2022, "Physics-Infused Reduced Order Modeling of Hypersonic Aerothermal Loads for Aerothermoelastic Analysis", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Diego, CA, pp. 1-21
  • Yin Yu, Desirae A. Major, Daning Huang and Sven Schmitz, 2022, "Reduced-Order Modeling of Ship Airwakes with Atmospheric Turbulence Effects using Dynamic Graph Networks", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Diego, CA, pp. 1-18
  • Kalki Sharma, Vidullan Surenderan, Yin Yu, Daning Huang, Kenneth S Brentner and Phuriwat Anusonti-Inthra, 2021, "Modeling of the Blade Crossover Interaction using Machine Learning", American Helicopter Society, Virtual, pp. 1-14
  • Aravinth Sadagopan, Daning Huang, Umran Duzel, Liza E. Martin and Kyle M. Hanquist, 2021, "Assessment of High-Temperature Effects on Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Analysis using Multi-Fidelity Multi-Variate Surrogates", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-24
  • Carlos A. Vargas Venegas and Daning Huang, 2021, "Expedient Hypersonic Aerothermal Prediction for Aerothermoelastic Analysis Via Field Inversion and Machine Learning", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-24
  • Brian Coulter, Zhenbo Wang, Daning Huang and Yuehan Yao, 2021, "Hypersonic Trajectory Optimization with High-Fidelity Aerothermodynamic Models", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-17
  • Aravinth Sadagopan, Daning Huang, Haosen Xu and Xiang Yang, 2021, "Numerical Investigation of Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interaction for a Control Surface in Hypersonic Flow", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-21
  • Damien Gueho, Puneet Singla and Daning Huang, 2021, "Sparse Nonlinear System Identification for Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Analysis with Stochastic Loads", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-15
  • Damien Gueho, Puneet Singla and Daning Huang, 2021, "Time-varying Linear Reduced Order Model for Hypersonic Aerothermoelastic Analysis", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Virtual, pp. 1-18
  • Kyle M Hanquist, Umran Duzel, Martin Liza, Aravinth Sadagopan and Daning Huang, 2020, "Modeling High-Temperature Flow Field Effects Relevant to Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions", JANNAF, Virtual, pp. 1-24
  • Aravinth Sadagopan, Daning Huang and Kyle M. Hanquist, 2020, "Impact of High-Temperature Effects on the Aerothermoelastic Behavior of Composite Skin Panels in Hypersonic Flow", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Orlando, FL, pp. 1-24
  • Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2019, "A multi-objective optimization framework for hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling laws and its application to skin panels", IFASD, Savannah, GA, pp. 1-44
  • Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2019, "A surrogate-based optimization framework for hypersonic aerothermoelastic scaling laws with application to skin panels", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Diego, CA, pp. 1-27
  • Daning Huang, Tomer Rokita and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2018, "Aerothermoelastic scaling laws for hypersonic skin panel configurations with arbitrary flow orientation", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kissimmee, FL, pp. 1-23
  • Tomer Rokita, Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2018, "Efficient modeling of fluid-structure-thermal interaction in hypersonic flow", IACAS, Haifa, Israel, pp. 1492-1520
  • Daning Huang, Tomer Rokita and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2017, "An aerothermoelastic analysis framework enhanced by model order reduction with applications", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Grapevine, TX, pp. 1-19
  • Daning Huang, Tomer Rokita and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2017, "Efficient reduced-order modeling for skin panels in hypersonic flow and its application to generating aerothermoelastic scaling laws", IFASD, Como, Italy, pp. 1-30
  • Daning Huang and Peretz P. Friedmann, 2016, "An integrated aerothermoelastic analysis framework for predicting the response of composite panels", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Diego, CA, pp. 1-30
  • Yufei Wu, Sabrullah Deniz, Yang Shi, Zhenbo Wang and Daning Huang, , "Precision Landing Trajectory Optimization for eVTOL Vehicles with High-Fidelity Aerodynamic Models"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2019
  • NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, March 2024

Service

Service to Penn State:

  • Committee Work, Chairperson, Lead, Center for Acoustics and Vibration, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technical Group, February 2021

Service to External Organizations:

  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, ASME Structures and Materials Technical Committee, August 2023
  • Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Committee Member, AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee, June 2022
 


 

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The Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering, established in 1961 and the only aerospace engineering department in Pennsylvania, is consistently recognized as one of the top aerospace engineering departments in the nation, and is also an international leader in aerospace education, research, and engagement. Our undergraduate program is ranked 15th and our graduate programs are ranked 15th nationally by U.S. News & World Report, while one in 25 holders of a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering in the U.S. earned it from Penn State. Our students are consistently among the most highly recruited by industry, government, and graduate schools nationwide.

The department is built upon the fundamentals of academic integrity, innovation in research, and commitment to the advancement of industry. Through an innovative curriculum and world-class instruction that reflects current industry practice and embraces future trends, Penn State Aerospace Engineering graduates emerge as broadly educated, technically sound aerospace engineers who will become future leaders in a critical industry

Department of Aerospace Engineering

229 Hammond Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-2569