杏吧原创

Biography

Summary:

Dr. Feszty is a leading Canadian expert on helicopter aerodynamics, vibration and noise control, as well as on high-speed unsteady flows, who spends the 2015-16 academic year as a sabbatical year at car manufacturer Audi鈥檚 Hungary plant. He has published more than 50 scientific papers and has graduated close to 30 MSc and PhD thesis students in the above fields since 2003. He co-founded and served as first Director of one of the largest academic aerospace Research Centers in Canada 鈥� 杏吧原创 Aerospace, – which involves more than 30 professors conducting research in aerospace engineering at 杏吧原创 University. He also co-founded Canada鈥檚 oldest and largest Rotorcraft Research Groups, as well as Canada鈥檚 first Student Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS), which he serves as Faculty Advisor since 2012. He has mentored several award winning students, including the first ever Canadian winner of an AHS Scholarship as well as a winner of the AHS Montreal-Ottawa Chapter鈥檚 (which is the largest non-U.S. based AHS Chapter with more than 400 members) Lichten competition, an award for that year鈥檚 best scientific paper from a new author. In academic year 2015-16, Dr. Feszty spends his sabbatical year at car manufacturer Audi鈥檚 Hungary plant, – Audi Hungaria, in Gy艖r, Hungary –听 which, beside manufacturing several car models is also the world鈥檚 largest engine manufacturing plant. Dr. Feszty focusses his research here on the potential parellels between the aerospace and automotive sectors in the fields of fluid dynamics as well as vibration and noise control research.

Career:

2015 鈥� 2016: Expert, Whole Vehicle Development, Audi Hungaria, Gy艖r, Hungary (on sabbatical year from 杏吧原创 University)

2003 鈥� present: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

2012 鈥� 15: Director, Aerospace Research Unit, 杏吧原创 University, one of the largest academic aerospace research centers in Canada, with more than 30 professors as members

2003 鈥� present: co-founder and co-leader of the Rotorcraft Research Group at 杏吧原创 University, Canada鈥檚 largest research group on helicopter technologies, which has graduated more than 30 MASc and PhD thesis students and published about 50 papers since its foundation

2012 鈥� present: co-founder and Faculty Advisor, Student Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS), 杏吧原创 University (Canada鈥檚 first AHS Student Chapter with more than 20 student members in any year)

2010 鈥� 15: President and co-founder, Smart Rotor Systems Ltd., a spin-off company focussing on commercializing a novel active vibration and noise control technology for helicopters

2001 鈥� 03: Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.

1997: Trained as Mi-17 Helicopter Technician during compulsory military service

1996-97: Aircraft Design Engineer, Evektor Ltd., Kunovice, Czech Republic

Education:

PhD. (Aerospace Engineering), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., 1997 – 2001

Ing. (Aerospace Engineering), Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republic, 1991 – 1996

Research interest:

– aerodynamics

– Computational Fluid Dynamics

– noise and vibration control

– helicopter and wind turbine rotor design

 

Invited Lectures:

Feszty, D., 鈥淪elected topics in helicopter vibration and noise control and their potential use in automotive applications鈥�, Audi Hungaria AG/Sz茅chenyi University, Gy艖r, Hungary, Department of Whole Vehicle Engineering, 26 May 2014.

Feszty, D., 鈥淎ctive Control Systems for Vibration & Noise Control on Helicopters鈥�, 9th Annual HELICON conference on military helicopters, Baltimore, MD, 12 鈥� 14 Dec 2011.

Feszty, D., 鈥淓xperimental Demonstrations of the Active Pitch Link for Vibration Reduction on Helicopters鈥�, 7th Annual HELICON conference on military helicopters, Huntsville, AL, 17-19 Nov, 2009.

Feszty, D., Etele, J., 鈥淗ypersonic Research Interests at 杏吧原创 University鈥�, Canadian Hypersonics Research for Defense Workshop, DRDC (Defense Research Development Canada), Valcartier, QC, 7-8 Dec 2004.

 

Affiliations:

Member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) & a Licensed Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada (P.Eng.)

Member of the American Helicopter Society (since 2004)

Member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (since 1999)

Publications:

Papers in refereed journals:

[1] Feszty, D., McTavish, S., Bodnya*, I., Jee, D*., 鈥淪ynthetic Shroud Concept for Wind Turbine Performance Optimization鈥�, submitted to the AIAA Journal, January 2016.

[2] Gosselin, D., Feszty, D., 鈥淣umerical investigation of the effect of advancing blade shock induced flow separation on dynamic stall鈥�, submitted to the AHS Journal, November 2015.

[3] McTavish*, S., Rodrigue*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F. 鈥淎n Investigation of In-Field Blockage Effects in Closely-Spaced Lateral Wind Farms Configurations鈥�, Wind Engineering, published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/we.1806, Sep 2014.

[4] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淎 study of the performance benefits of closely-spaced lateral wind farm configurations,鈥� Renewable Energy, Vol. 59, pp. 128鈥�135, November 2013.

[5] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淓valuating Reynolds Number Effects in Small-Scale Wind Turbine Experiments鈥�, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 120, pp. 81-90, September 2013.

[6] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淎n Experimental and Computational Assessment of Blockage Effects on Wind Turbine Wake Development, Wind Energy, Published online 19 July 2013 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/we.1648, published in print in Vol. 17., pp. 1515-1529, Sep 2014.

[7] Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淩eview of Active Rotor Control Research in Canada鈥�, International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93-114, June 2011.

[8] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Sankar, T., 鈥淪teady and rotating computational fluid dynamics simulations of a novel vertical axis wind turbine for small-scale power generation鈥�, Renewable Energy, Vol. 41, pg. 171-179, May 2011.

[9] Balajewicz*, M., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., 鈥淎pplication of multi-input Volterra theory to nonlinear multi-degree-of-freedom aerodynamic systems鈥�, AIAA Journal, v. 48, no. 1, pp. 56-62, January 2010

[10] Oxley*, G., Nitzsche, F., Feszty. D., 鈥淪mart spring control of vibration on helicopter blades鈥�, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 46, pp. 692-696, March 鈥� April 2009.

[11] McTavish*, S., Beaubien*, R., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淚mproved transonic flutter analysis in the frequency domain using CFD鈥� CASI (Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute) Journal, Vol. 54., no. 3-4, pp. 41-63, September/December 2008.

[12] Feszty, D., Gillies, E.A., Vezza, M., 鈥淎lleviation of rotor blade dynamic stall via trailing edge flap flow control鈥�, AIAA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 17-25, January 2004.

[13] Feszty, D., Badcock, K.J., and Richards, B.E., 鈥淒riving mechanisms of high-speed unsteady spiked body flows. Part I – Pulsation Mode鈥�, AIAA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 95-107, January 2004.

[14] Feszty, D., Badcock, K.J., and Richards, B.E., 鈥淒riving mechanisms of high-speed unsteady spiked body flows. Part II – Oscillation Mode鈥� AIAA Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 107-113, January 2004.

[15] Feszty, D., Badcock, K.J., and Richards, B.E., 鈥淯tilising CFD in the investigation of high-speed unsteady spiked body flows鈥�, Aeronautical Journal, Vol. 106, No. 1058, pp. 161-174, April 2002.

[16] Feszty, D., Richards, B.E., Badcock, K.J., and Woodgate, M.A., 鈥淣umerical Simulation of a pulsating flow arising over an axisymmetric spiked blunt body at Mach 2.21 and Mach 6.00鈥�, Shock Waves Journal, Vol.10, Issue 5, pp 323-331, 2000.

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

[17] Feszty, D., McTavish, S., Bodnya, I., Jee, D., 鈥溾�淪ynthetic shroud鈥� concept for wind turbine performance optimization鈥�, submitted to the 2016 AIAA Propulsion and Energy conference to be held in Salt Lake City, UT on 25-27 July 2016. Submitted January 2016.

[18] Boots, D., Feszty, D., 鈥淣umerical Investigation of the Effect of Wing Position on the Aeroacoustic Field of a Propeller鈥�, submitted to the 2016 AIAA Propulsion and Energy conference to be held in Salt Lake City, UT on 25-27 July 2016. Submitted January 2016.

[19] Gosselin, D., Feszty, D., 鈥淣umerical investigation of the effect of advancing blade shock induced flow separation on dynamic stall鈥�, accepted for presentation at the 72th AHS Forum, 16-19 May 2016, West Palm Beach, FL, United States, 2016.

[20] Herniczek, M. K., Jee, D., Sanders, B., Feszty, D.,听 鈥淩otor Blade Design Optimization and Flight Testing of a Small UAV Rotorcraft鈥�, accepted for presentation at the 72th AHS Forum, 16-19 May 2016, West Palm Beach, FL, United States, 2016

[21] Arras, M., Coppotelli, G., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., “Identification of the Smart Spring properties from FRFs measurements”, 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech, (AIAA 2015-2061)

[22] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F. “An Investigation of Field Blockage Effects in Closely-Spaced Lateral Wind Farm Configurations.” presented at the Americas Conference on Wind Engineering ACWE 2013.听 Paper 53.听 June 16-19, Seattle, United States of America, 2013.

[23] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F. “The Development of a Scaled Wind Farm Laboratory for Undergraduate 听听 Education. ” presented at the Americas Conference on Wind Engineering ACWE 2013.听 Paper 123.听 June 16-19, Seattle, United States of America, 2013.

[24] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F. “Quantifying Wake Effects in Laterally-Configured Scaled Wind Farms”听 Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute AERO 2013.听 Paper 127.听 April 30 – May 2, Toronto, Canada, 2013.

[25] Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., Grappassoni*, C., Coppotelli, G., 鈥淲hirl-tower Open-loop Experiments and Simulations with an Adaptive Pitch Link Device for Helicopter Rotor Vibration Control鈥� 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC听 Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Boston, MA, April 2013.

[26] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淎n Experimental Assessment of Blockage and Reynolds Number Effects on Wind Turbine Wake Development鈥�, ASME Turbo Expo 2012 Wind Energy Symposium.听 Paper GT2012-69335. June 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012.

[27] Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., Vamosi*, S., Pickard*, A., Khomutov*, K., Ulker*, F.D., Richardson*, M., 鈥淒evelopments on the Hybrid Stiffness – Flow Control Active System for Rotor Vibration Attenuation Project 鈥� SHARCS鈥�, 38th European Rotorcraft Forum, Paper 010, 4-7 September 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2013.

[28] Richardson*, M., Feszty, D., Pickard*, J.A., Nitzsche, F., Khomutov*, K.V., Vamosi*, S.B., Young*, R.D., 鈥淭owards closed-loop control tests of the SHARCS active pitch link in the rotating frame鈥�, Proceedings of the 67th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society (AHS International), Virginia Beach, VI,听 vol. 2, pp. 1215-1226, May 2011.

[29] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Sankar, T., 鈥淒esign and Development of a Novel Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Using Computational Fluid Dynamics鈥�,听 European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC 2010), Apr 20-23, Warsaw, Poland, 2010.

[30] Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., Mander*, A., Coppotelli, G., Vetrano*, F., Riemenschneider, J, Wierach, P., “Whirl Tower Demonstrations of the SHARCS Hybrid Control Concept”, paper presented at the 65th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Grapevine, TX, 27-29 May 2009.

[31] Balajewicz*, M., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., 鈥淩educed Order Modeling of Nonlinear Transonic Aerodynamics Using a Pruned Volterra Series鈥�, AIAA Paper 2009-2319, 50th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Palm Springs, California, May 4-7, 2009.

[32] Coppotelli, G., Vetrano*, F., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., Mander*, A., Riemenschneider, J, Wierach, P. 鈥淚dentification of the dynamic properties of active twist rotor model blade using output-only data鈥�, International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC 2009), Portonovo (Ancona) Italy, 4-6 May 2009.

[33] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥滱eroelastic Simulations of the NREL Wind Turbine Using a Discrete Vortex Method鈥�, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute AERO 2009 Conference, May 5-7, Ottawa, Canada, 2009.

[34] McTavish*, S., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F.听 Aeroelastic Simulations of the NREL Wind Turbine Using a Discrete Vortex Method Coupled with a Nonlinear Beam Model.听 European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC 2009), Mar 16-19, Marseille, France, 2009.

[35] 脺lker, F.D*., Mander*, A., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淪HARCS: Hybrid Control Concept of Vibration Reduction of Helicopters鈥�, Paper 9A1, 34th European Rotorcraft Forum, Liverpool, U.K., 16-18 Sep 2008.

[36] Mander*, A., Feszty, D. Nitzsche, F., 鈥淎ctive Pitch Link Actuator for Impedance Control of Helicopter Vibration鈥�, Paper no. 080170, 64th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Montreal, QC, Canada, 29 Apr -1 May 2008.

[37] Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., Khomutov*, K., Lynch*, B., Mander*, A., 脺lker*, F.D., 鈥淒esign and instrumentation of the SHARCS scaled rotor with three independent control systems鈥�, Paper no. 080166, 64th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Montreal, QC, Canada, 29 Apr -1 May 2008.

[38] Balajewicz*, M., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D. 鈥淥n the Application of Multi-Input Volterra Theory to Nonlinear Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Aerodynamic Systems鈥�, paper AIAA 2008-2324, 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials SDM Conference, Shaumberg, IL, U.S.A., 7 鈥� 10 Apr 2008.

[39] McTavish*, S., Beaubien*, R., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淚mproved transonic flutter analysis in the frequency domain using CFD鈥� Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) AERO 2007 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 24-26 Apr 2007.

[40] Lynch*, B., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., Cha*, M., Gransden*, D., Khomutov*, K., Mander*, A., Oxley*, G., 脺lker*, F.D., 鈥淒evelopment of a Smart Rotorcraft Blade for noise and vibration attenuation鈥�, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) AERO 2007 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 24-26 Apr 2007.

[41] Ghorashi*, M., Mikjaniec*, T., Lynch*, B., 脺lker*, F.D., Cha*, M. Mander*, A., Brassard*, D.P., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., 鈥淧reliminary Design of a Scaled Rotor Blade with Vibration and Noise Control Devices鈥�, Paper AR08, 32nd European Rotorcraft Forum, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 12-14 Sep 2006.

[42] Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., Waechter, D., Bianchi, E., Voutsinas, S., Gennaretti, M., Coppotelli, G., Ghiringhelli, G.L., “The SHARCS project: Smart Hybrid Active Rotor Control for noise and vibration attenuation of helicopter rotor blades”, 31st European Rotorcraft Forum – Florence, Italy, vol. 2005, pp 52-1 鈥� 52-15, 2005.

[43] Davis*, G.L., Feszty, D., Nitzsche, F., “Trailing edge flow control for the mitigation of dynamic stall effects”, 31st European Rotorcraft Forum – Florence, Italy, vol. 2, pp 53-1 鈥� 53-11, 2005.

[44] Beaubien*, R.J., Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., “Time and frequency domain solutions for the AGARD 445 wing”, Paper IF-102, IFASD 2005 (International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics), Munich, Germany, 28 Jun – 01 Jul 2005.

[45] Nitzsche, F., Feszty, D., “SHARCS: an international project for noise and vibration attenuation on helicopter rotor blades”, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) 2005 Conference, Toronto, Canada, 26-27 Apr 2005.

[46] Feszty, D., Gillies, E.A, Vezza, M., 鈥淎lleviation of rotor blade dynamic stall via trailing edge flap flow control鈥�, paper AIAA 2003-050, presented at the 41st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, USA, January 2003.

[47] Feszty, D., Badcock, K.J. and Richards, B.E., 鈥淯tilising CFD in the investigation of high speed unsteady spiked body flows鈥�, paper presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerodynamics Conference, London, UK, April 2001.

[48] Feszty, D., Badcock, K.J. and Richards, B.E., 鈥淣umerical simulation of the hysteresis phenomena in high-speed spiked body flows鈥�, paper AIAA 2000-0141 presented at the 38th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, USA, January 2000.

[49] Feszty, D., Richards, B.E. and Badcock, K.J., 鈥淣umerically Simulated Unsteady Flows over Spiked Blunt Bodies at Supersonic and Hypersonic Speeds鈥�, in 鈥淧roceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves鈥�, Editors: Ball, G.J., Hillier, R., Roberts, G.T. Imperial College, London, UK, pp 1653-1658, 1999.

听Non-Refereed Conference Publications:

[50] Kun, J. Jakub铆k, T., Feszty, D., Schuster, M., 鈥淎erodynamic Optimization of a Formula SAE racecar using VECTIS鈥�, accepted for presentation at the 2016 Ricardo Software User Conference Europe, to be held on 4-6 April 2016 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

[51] Dick, R., Feszty, D., 鈥淎erodynamic Studies of Observatory Domes鈥�, Astronomy Roundup 2007 – Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, 29 Jun 鈥� 1 Jul 2007.