A tentative list of student research projects for for the 2008-2009 academic year are listed below.  The first list represents some topic areas which are immediately available. In addition to those research areas there will be NIA GRA support in the multidisciplinary areas supported by the Langley Professors. Finally there will be addional research available in topics related to NASA Langley’s Strategic Goals, which are listed below.

• Application of turbulence mmodeling for separation on-set prediction
• Supersonic/ Hypersonic transition
• Fundamental combustion kinetics
• Computational techniques for modeling turbulent combustion
• Experimental techniques for high-speed flows
• Propulsion/Airframe installation effects on jet noise
• Stability and control with CFD
• Flight dynamics human operation in remote sensing
• Adaptive controls
• Computer science applications in avionics
• Uncertainty quantification and probabilistic methods for impact dynamics
• Damage mechanics of composite materials (experimental and computational)
• Fixed wing and launch-vehicle aeroelasticity and servoelasticity
• Dynamic material characterization of designer extreme materials

General topic areas related to the NASA Langley Strategic Goals:

• Materials - Design & Develop Multi-Functional Materials/Systems to Enable  New Classes of Systems
• Climate - Measure, Analyze and Model Key Components of Earth’s Atmosphere
• Planetary - Develop a Predictive Capability for Traversing Planetary Atmospheres
• Aero - Synergistic integrated Aero design for clean, quiet, efficient, safe, affordable and secure commercial transportation
• Aero - A Digital Airspace with Non-Hub, On-Demand, Point to Point Air Travel
• Cogno - Virtual Research Center, Virtual Cradle-to-grave Design/I Invention/ MDO/ Optimization/ Certification, Efficient Knowledge & Wisdom Acquisition/ Utilization
• Exploration - Enable Safe, Affordable Public Transportation to Space
• Exploration - Sustainable/ Renewable Human Exploration Systems
• Exploration - Immersive Virtual Human Exploration Through Robotic Systems with Human-Level Robustness and Autonomy