Prof. Karen E Willcox

Professor Willcox leads the Silent Aircraft Design and Acoustic Integration research component of the Silent Aircraft Initiative (SAI) project. This component provides the integrative capability required by creating a framework for aircraft conceptual design with noise as the primary objective, and using this to provide quantitative assessment of performance and noise characteristics at the aircraft system level. The first step is development of a Silent Aircraft Design Framework which integrates existing aircraft design codes with acoustic and economic models and adapts them to innovative low-noise aircraft designs. We will then use this framework plus inputs from the operations and technology components to evaluate new low noise designs.