THOMAS D. ECONOMON. Education. Professional Appointments. Honors and Awards. Durand Building, 496 Lomita Mall, Room 464

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1 THOMAS D. ECONOMON Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics Durand Building, 496 Lomita Mall, Room 464 Stanford, CA web: citizenship: United States Education Stanford University, Aeronautics & Astronautics, PhD, 2014 Stanford University, Aeronautics & Astronautics, MS, 2010 University of Notre Dame, Aerospace Engineering, BS, 2008 Professional Appointments Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2014-Present Leading development of a turbulence/particle/radiation code embedded in a domain specific language (DSL) for exascale simulations of particle-laden flows (PSAAP II). SU2 Co-lead Developer, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2011-Present Co-lead developer for the SU2 open-source software suite for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and optimal shape design. Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Supported development of high-performance computing strategies for exascale platforms as part of the Department of Energy s Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program II (PSAAP II). Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Spring Quarter 2014 Assisted with teaching duties for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (CME) 342: Parallel Methods in Numerical Analysis. Langley Aerospace Research Student Scholar (LARSS), NASA Langley, Hampton, VA, 2008 Performed CFD validation studies for active flow control concepts (circulation control). Honors and Awards Ballhaus Prize for Best PhD Thesis, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford University, 2014 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow (NDSEG), NASA Aeronautics Scholarship (declined in order to accept NDSEG), 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF GRFP), Outstanding Research Paper Award, AME Department, University of Notre Dame, 2007 First Place, AIAA Region III Student Conference and Paper Competition, 2007 Notre Dame Club of St. Louis Scholarship, 2004

2 Professional Memberships and Service American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member, 2005-Present Reviewer, AIAA Journal, 2015-Present Reviewer, Computers & Fluids, 2015-Present AIAA Solver Technologies for Turbulent Flows Discussion Group, 2013-Present Stanford Aero/Astro Student Advisory Committee, 2012-Present Student Committee Lead for the Stanford Aero/Astro Faculty Search, 2012 Engineer Intern, Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, 2008-Present Sigma Gamma Tau, Member, 2008-Present Tau Beta Pi, Member, 2007-Present Teaching Experience CME 342: Parallel Methods in Numerical Analysis, Stanford University, Spring Quarter 2014 Delivered a number of lectures on parallel numerical methods, including the following topics: Introduction to the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Basic Communication in MPI Graph Partitioning Algorithms Iterative Methods for Matrix Computation Introduction to Multigrid and its Parallelization Additional Experience Aerodynamic Design Team, Stanford Solar Car Project, Stanford, CA, 2014-Present Modeling and Analysis for the Report of the Independent Experts on the Medium and Long Term Goals for Aviation Fuel Burn Reduction From Technology (ICAO / CAEP), Stanford, CA, 2010 Engineering Design Intern, Airfoils Center of Excellence, General Electric (GE) Aviation, Evendale, OH, 2007 Undergraduate Research on the hazards of aircraft-wake interactions, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2006 College of Engineering Peer Mentor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,

3 Publications Refereed Journal Articles 1. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., An Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach for Aerodynamic Design on Dynamic Meshes, AIAA Journal, doi: 2. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Copeland, S. R., Lukaczyk, T. W., Alonso, J. J., SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multi-Physics Simulation and Design, AIAA Journal (under revision). 3. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Redesign of a wing-body-tail aircraft configuration using SU2, AIAA Journal (under review). 4. Tomko, J., Stephens, D. B., Economon, T. D., Morris, S. C., Experiments and analysis of the internal wall pressure of a ducted rotor, Journal of Sound and Vibration (under review). 5. Variyar, A., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Fuel Burn Impact of Redesigning Future Aircraft with Changes in Mission Specifications, Journal of Aircraft (under review). 6. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Bansal, G., Mudigere, D., Deshpande, A., Heinecke, A., Smelyanskiy, M., High Performance Agglomeration Multigrid Solver for Largescale Unstructured RANS Simulations Using SU2, (in preparation). Conference Publications 1. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Bansal, G., Mudigere, D., Deshpande, A., Heinecke, A., Smelyanskiy, M., High Performance Large-scale Implicit RANS Calculations with SU2, AIAA SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA (submitted). 2. Palacios, F., Vassberg, J., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Albring, T., Gauger, N., NASA Common Research Model redesign using adjoint-based methods on unstructured meshes, AIAA SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA (submitted). 3. Variyar, A., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Multifidelity Conceptual Design and Optimization of Strut-Braced Wing Aircraft using Physics Based Methods, AIAA SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA (submitted). 4. Sanchez, R., Palacios, R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Palacios, F., Towards a Fluid- Structure Interaction Solver for Problems with Large Deformations Within the Open-Source SU2 Suite, AIAA SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA (submitted). 5. Kline, H., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Adjoint-Based Multidisciplinary Optimization of a Three-Dimensional Hypersonic Inlet, AIAA SciTech 2016, San Diego, CA (submitted). 6. Zhou, Y., Albring, T., Gauger, N., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Alonso, J. J., A Discrete Adjoint Framework for Unsteady Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Optimization, AIAA Paper , 16th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Dallas, TX, June, Vitale, S., Gori, G., Pini, M., Guardone, A., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., and Colonna, P., Extension of the SU2 open source CFD code to the simulation of turbulent flows of fluids modelled with complex thermophysical laws, AIAA Paper , 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June 2015.

4 8. Lukaczyk, T., Wendorff, A., Colonno, M., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Orra, T., and Ilario da Silve, C. R., SUAVE: An Open-Source Environment for Multi-Fidelity Conceptual Vehicle Design, AIAA Paper , 16th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Dallas, TX, June, Manosalvas, D., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Jameson, A., Techniques for the Design of Active Flow Control Systems in Heavy Vehicles, AIAA Paper , 33rd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June, Kline, H., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Adjoint-Based Optimization of a Hypersonic Inlet, AIAA Paper , 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Bansal, G., Mudigere, D., Deshpande, A., Heinecke, A., Smelyanskiy, M., Towards High-Performance Optimizations of the Unstructured Open-Source SU2 Suite, AIAA Paper , AIAA Infotech at Aerospace, AIAA SciTech, Kissimmee, FL, January, Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Large-scale aircraft design using SU2, AIAA Paper , 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech, Kissimmee, FL, January, Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., An Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach for Aerodynamic Design on Dynamic Meshes, AIAA Paper , 15th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, Manosalvas, D., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Jameson, A., Finding Computationally Inexpensive Methods to Model the Flow Past Heavy Vehicles and the Design of Active Flow Control Systems for Drag Reduction, AIAA , 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, M. López, A. Sheshadri, K. Asthana J. Bull, J. Crabill, Economon, T. D., D. Manosalvas, J. Romero, J. Watkins, D. Williams, F. Palacios, and A. Jameson, Verification and Validation of HiFiLES: a High-Order Navier-Stokes unstructured solver on multi-gpu platforms, AIAA Paper , 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Aranake, A. C., Copeland, S. R., Lonkar, A. K., Lukaczyk, T. W., Manosalvas, D. E., Naik, K. R., Padron, A. S., Tracey, B., Variyar, A., and Alonso, J. J., Stanford University Unstructured (SU 2 ): Open-source analysis and design technology for turbulent flows, AIAA Paper , AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2014: 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, National Harbor, MD, January 13-17, Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., A Viscous Continuous Adjoint Approach for the Design of Rotating Engineering Applications, AIAA Paper , 21st AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, Colonno, M. R., Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Lonkar, A. K., Alonso, J. J., An Adjoint- Based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Methodology for Fairing Systems, AIAA Paper , 31st AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, Palacios, F., Colonno, M. R., Aranake, A. C., Campos, A., Copeland, S. R., Economon, T. D., Lonkar, A. K., Lukaczyk, T. W., Taylor, T. W. R., Alonso, J. J., Stanford University Unstructured (SU 2 ): An open-source integrated computational environment for multi-physics

5 simulation and design, AIAA Paper , 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Grapevine, Texas, January 7-10, Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Unsteady Aerodynamic Design on Unstructured Meshes with Sliding Interfaces, AIAA Paper , 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Grapevine, Texas, January 7-10, Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., A Coupled-Adjoint Method for Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Optimization, AIAA Paper , 12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSM Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, September, Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Optimal Shape Design for Open Rotor Blades, AIAA Paper , 30th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June, Economon, T. D., Copeland, S., Alonso, J.J., Zeinali, M., Rutherford, D., Design and Optimization of Future Aircraft for Assessing the Fuel Burn Trends of Commercial Aviation, AIAA Paper , 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January, Morris, S., Stephens, D., Economon, T. D., Blake, W., Interior Duct Wall Pressure Downstream of a Low-Speed Rotor, AIAA Paper , 14th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May, Economon, T. D., Effects of Wake Vortices on Commercial Aircraft, AIAA Paper , 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January, Theses 1. Economon, T. D., Optimal Shape Design Using an Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach, PhD thesis, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Economon, T. D., Interior Duct Wall Pressure Downstream of a Low-Speed Rotor, Undergraduate thesis, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Technical Reports 1. Economon, T. D., Milholen, W. E., Parametric Investigation of a 2-D Circulation Control Geometry, Configuration Aerodynamics Branch, Research and Technology Directorate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, 2008.

6 Invited Talks 1. Open-Source CFD Analysis and Design with SU2, VINAS Users Conference 2015, Tokyo, Japan, An Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach for Aerodynamic Design, NASA AMS Seminar, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA, June, Large-Scale Aircraft Design Using SU2 and a Continuous Adjoint Approach, SIAM CSE15, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, March, Large-Scale Aircraft Design Using SU2 and Pointwise, Pointwise User Group Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA, October, 2014.