Research Summary
Aerodynamics, wind energy and rotorcraft aeromechanics. His research interests further include developing best practices to help wind turbine operators adjust blade angle, pitch and speed so that the machines can ride out an ice storm and its aftermath with minimal damage and power degradation, and assessing the complex flows around helicopter rotor hubs using one-quarter scale models submerged in the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel at ARL (the Applied Research Lab).
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Recent Publications
Glauert's optimum rotor disk revisited - a calculus of variations solution and exact integrals for thrust and bending moment coefficients
Tyagi, D. & Schmitz, S., Feb 21 2025, In: Wind Energy Science. 10, 2, p. 451-460 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Inviscid analysis of horizontal axis wind turbines using distributed vorticity elements
Basom, B. J., Miller, M. A., Kandias, C. S., Coder, J. G., Schmitz, S. & Maughmer, M. D., Mar 1 2024, In: Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 16, 2, 023308.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Machine Learning Models for Multirotor Performance Prediction
Cornelius, J. & Schmitz, S., Jul 2024, In: Journal of Aircraft. 61, 4, p. 1303-1313 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Rotor Performance Predictions for Urban Air Mobility: Single vs. Coaxial Rigid Rotors
Cornelius, J., Schmitz, S., Palacios, J., Juliano, B. & Heisler, R., Mar 2024, In: Aerospace. 11, 3, 244.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
On the role of induced power in turbine wake scaling: Bridging 100-m to 0.1-m rotors
Major, D. & Schmitz, S., 2024, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2767, 2, 022055.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Massive Graphical Processing Unit Parallelization for Multirotor Computational Fluid Dynamics
Cornelius, J. K. & Schmitz, S., Nov 2023, In: Journal of Aircraft. 60, 6, p. 2010-2016 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Drag Decomposition Using Partial-Pressure Fields: Ventus-3 and NASA Common Research Model
Hart, P. L., Axten, C. J., Maughmer, M. D. & Schmitz, S., Nov 2023, In: Journal of Aircraft. 60, 6, p. 1798-1810 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
SFS2 off-bow airwakes: Effects of Reynolds number and atmospheric boundary layers
Major, D. & Schmitz, S., Oct 2023, In: Aerospace Science and Technology. 141, 108502.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Analytical and Experimental Power Minimization for Fixed-Pitch Coaxial Rotors in Hover
Opazo, T. I., Raja Zahirudin, R. A., Palacios, J., Schmitz, S. & Langelaan, J. W., Mar 2023, In: Journal of Aircraft. 60, 2, p. 546-559 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Three Rotor Hub Flow Prediction Workshops (2016–2020): What Did We Learn and What’s Next?
Schmitz, S., Tierney, C., Reich, D., Jaffa, N., Centolanza, L. R. & Thomas, M. L., Jan 2023, In: Journal of the American Helicopter Society. 68, 1, 012005.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Drag Decomposition Using Partial-Pressure Fields: ONERA M6 Wing
Hart, P. L. & Schmitz, S., 2022, In: AIAA journal. 60, 5, p. 2941-2952 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Partial Pressure Field for Airfoil Wave Drag
Hart, P. L. & Schmitz, S., Oct 2022, In: AIAA journal. 60, 10, p. 5791-5804 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fatigue study of an inverse-designed low induction rotor using open-source tools
Major, D., Churchfield, M. & Schmitz, S., Jun 2 2022, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2265, 4, 042034.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
Full-Scale Reynolds Number Testing of Rotor Hub Drag and Wake Turbulence
Reich, D. B., Krane, M. H., Willits, S. M. & Schmitz, S., Oct 2022, In: Journal of the American Helicopter Society. 67, 4, 042008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
On the Influence of Inflow Model Selection for Time-Domain Tiltrotor Aeroelastic Analysis
Corle, E., Floros, M. & Schmitz, S., Jul 2021, In: Journal of the American Helicopter Society. 66, 3, 032009.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review