{"427471":{"#nid":"427471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-AE\u0027s Kevin Jacobson receives Lichten Award for Southern Region","body":[{"value":"\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKevin Jacobson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWinner of the AHS 2015 Robert Lichten Award - Southern Region\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAerospace engineering doctoral student Kevin Jacobson has been chosen as the winner of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s (AHS) 2015 Robert Lichten Award for the Southern Region.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe win means that Jacobson, 23, is invited to submit his paper, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/Jacobson-abstract.pdf\u0022\u003EAdvanced Hybrid-CFD Techniques with Non-Contiguous Grids\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022 for consideration in the national Lichten competition, where he will be up against nine other student scholars. The winner of that competition will be invited to present at the AHS 71st Forum and Technology Display in Virginia this May.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoining Jacobson on the medal stand was fellow AE grad student Etienne Demers Bouchard, whose presentation, \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ae.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/img\/bouchard-abstract.pdf\u0022\u003EDesign Space Exploration of a Reconfigurable Rotor Helicopter Concept\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was given the rare distinction of \u0022runner-up\u0022 in the Southern Region competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable width=\u0022200\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00221\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd class=\u0022rtecenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEtienne Demers Bouchard\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERunner-up for the 2015 Lichten Award\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; -Southern\u0026nbsp;Region\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShould Jacobson not submit a paper for the national competition, Bouchard will be invited to submit his work.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The competition was fierce,\u0022 said Professor Marilyn Smith, who witnessed the presentations. \u0022The judges had a hard time making their decisions because of the high quality of the research and presentations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJacobson said his work focuses on the development of a simpler, less costly way of testing new rotor designs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022To model a rotor, you typically have to model all of the area around it,\u0022 he said. \u0022And that involves big CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations that can take a long time.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With non-contiguous grids, we are making the area of testing a lot tighter. We\u0027re measuring the area around the blades, but not the wake.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe tighter focus allows researchers to capture the complex wave features of the blades without bogging them down in time-consuming analyses of extraneous area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We expected to lose some accuracy, but, really, we didn\u0027t,\u0022\u0026nbsp;said Jacobson.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBouchard\u0027s presentation looks at the feasibility of using multiple, vertical lift-off and landing aircraft to hoist a tethered payload that, itself, holds the electrical source of power.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Electric propulsion allows us to explore new design opportunities,\u0022 said Bouchard. \u0022In practice, it would be very helpful lifting payloads over locations where you cannot land a traditional aircraft.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering doctoral student Kevin Jacobson has been chosen as the winner of the American Helicopter Society\u0027s (AHS) 2015 Robert Lichten Award for the Southern Region."}],"uid":"27456","created_gmt":"2015-07-22 10:42:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:15","author":"Britanny Grace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1239","name":"School of Aerospace Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2082","name":"aerospace engineering"},{"id":"129781","name":"AHS"},{"id":"136371","name":"AHS 2015 Robert Lichten Award"},{"id":"136361","name":"Kevin Jacobson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["communications@ae.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}