Dr. Melike Nikbay received her B.S. and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul, M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from University of Colorado at Boulder, and Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from University of Colorado at Boulder in 2002. Dr. Melike Nikbay joined Istanbul Technical University as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and has been a full Professor of Aerospace Engineering since 2017. Dr. Melike Nikbay taught 23 different courses in undergraduate and graduate level. She is the co-author of 70 research articles which include journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. Since 2008, Dr. Melike Nikbay has been assigned in NATO Science and Technology Organization, Applied Vehicle Panel and is currently chair of Technical Committee of Mechanical Systems, Structures and Materials. Dr. Nikbay spent one year of sabbatical at Multidisciplinary Science and Technology Center at US Air Force Research Laboratory in Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton/Ohio working on Aeroelasticity. Next, she was invited and joined National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton/Virginia as senior research engineer and worked at NASA Langley Research Center for the Commercial Supersonic Technology Project.
Project: NASA Commercial Supersonic Technology (Project Manager: Peter Coen )
Research Area: Impact of Aeroelastic Uncertainty on Low Sonic Boom Aircraft Shaping Optimization (Supervisor: Lori Ozoroski)
Consultant with Wright State University and Wright State Research Institute
Research Area: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Aeroelasticity, Sensitivity Analysis, UQ
(Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Kolonay)
Managing foundation of R&D Department (Hired personnel, planned the infrastructure and software investment of the CAE laboratory (CAD, FEM, CFD), business development in international concurrent engineering projects (with Locheed Martin, Heroux-Devtek (Canada) on Joint Strike Fighter F-35), started collaboration with UK Royal Military College of Science & Cranfield University on grenade launcher project, and took courses on "Light Weapon Design" and "Guns & Ammunition Systems" in UK.
Developed "Heat-Gain" code which is a heat transfer analysis and insulation design code for refrigerators, managed Heat-Gain Project, developed lumped models for heat transfer and pressure characteristics of evaporators and condensers for air conditioners, participated in calorimetric room experiments for refrigerator insulation system, iniatiated implementation vacuum insulation panel (VIP) technology into refrigerator insulation system and designed a new model refrigerator door with VIP, studied gasket region heat transfer, supported solid modeling and mesh generation studies for CFD analyses for refrigerators.
GPA: 4.00/4.00
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GPA: 9.33/10.00
AeroMDO Lab (Aerospace Multidisciplinary Design Optimization) is established in 2019 in Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Current Research Topics are covering the following disciplines and topics: Aerodynamics & Aerodynamic Shape OptimizationAeroelasticity & Aeroelastic Optimization Aeroacoustics and Sonic Boom Minimization Integration of Propulsion Systems to MDO Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Reliability Based Design Optimization Uncertainty QuantificationReduced Order ModellingMultifidelity Analysis and OptimizationSensitivity Analysis
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