Contact Dr Yicheng Sun
- Email: Yicheng.Sun@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Aircraft Design
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Background
Yicheng graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Beihang University) in both Aircraft Design (BEng) and Applied Mathematics (BSc). He obtained his Ph.D. from ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥. Then he joined Tsinghua University as a post-doctoral researcher. He was awarded the Fellowship of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. Dr Sun is the champion of a national paper plane competition and holds the UK national record for distrance.
Research opportunities
• Aircraft Conceptual Design
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation
• Next-generation Supersonic Transport Design
• Alternative Fuels for Advanced Configurations
• CFD & Surrogate Model for Aircraft Conceptual Design
Current activities
Yicheng is currently working on the GENUS aircraft conceptual design environment. GENUS is a multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization environment that has been developing in the Aircraft Design Group since 2012. GENUS has been applied to the conceptual design of hypersonic launchers and transports, conventional and blended-wing-body airliners, supersonic transports, tailless combat UAVs. There are ongoing projects under development in GENUS. Yicheng is now leading the development of GENUS and cooperating with other researchers to their projects.
Clients
- GKN Ltd
- Aircraft Technology Institute
- Airbus SE