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Windo Hutabarat
Windo Hutabarat
PhD Research Student
- B.A. (Aerospace Engineering), Institut Teknologi Bandung, 2001
Windo Hutabarat joined the Engineering Design Centre in October 2004 after having worked as a design engineer for a start-up aerospace company in Indonesia. His supervisor is Dr Geoff Parks, and his adviser is Dr Jerome P. Jarrett.
His research in the EDC is on aerodynamic topology optimisation, essentially shape optimisation in aerodynamic domain with no a priori decision regarding the topology of the solution. Key technologies are the BOXER Cartesian flow solver, which provide robust flow analysis with truly flexible object manipulation capability; the level set method, which enable topologically flexible object representation scheme; and genetic algorithm, which provide an easy to apply and robust global search capability.
In some applications, aerodynamic topology optimisation is regarded as unnecessary since there do not seem to be radical changes of configurations which could not be foreseen by a sufficiently experienced designer. However, this view fails to take into account increasing scarcity of experienced designers, future escalation of product requirements, and the increasing ubiquity of raw computing power, all of which point toward expanding the role and capability of design tools to ensure design competitiveness. A tool able to develop topological alternatives in aerodynamic design is then of great utility.
Windo's first year was funded jointly by the the Chevening Scholarship and Rolls-Royce plc. He is now supported by the EDC and Cambridge Flow Solutions.
Selected Publications
- HUTABARAT, W., PARKS, G.T., JARRETT, J.P., and CLARKSON, P.J. (2006) 'A New Approach to Aerodynamic Topology Optimization', in Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture 2006 (accepted).
Contact Information
The University of Cambridge,
Department of Engineering,
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 1PZ
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: +44 1223 760566
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Email: wh226@eng.cam.ac.uk
