Contact Aaron Feria Alanis

Background

Aaron holds a BEng in Aeronautical engineering from Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) and received his MSc by Research in Aerospace from Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é. The research topic of the MSc was the implementation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) as a tool to enhance the aerofoil design process using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).

From 2020-2021 he worked as a Research Assistant with the Landing Gear Research group led by Professor Martin Skote. The research project in a collaboration between Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é and Airbus, encompassed the development of computational models in continuum mechanics including Fluid Mechanics, Computational Tribology, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), grid generation and computer aided design and analysis.

Research opportunities

- Mechanical Tribology

Current activities

Aaron is carrying out his PhD in Cranfield School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing at Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é.

His research topic is the investigation of seal leakage problems in aircraft landing gears by the use of numerical methods and Computational Molecular Dynamics. This work hopes to obtain a better insight of the physics in sealing tribo-surfaces at a molecular level, to enhance predictions of the properties of fluid-solid interactions between lubricants and tribo-surfaces such as viscosity, density, friction, and wear.