Biography

Sihong Yan is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He joined the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence at Penn State and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. His research interests include multiphase flow related to aircraft icing and testing techniques for rotorcrafts.

In his free time, Sihong enjoys soccer, building Lego models and reading.

Research

Experimental Rotorcraft Aerodynamics

Publications

Safieh, D., Shah, M., Yan, S., and Rauleder, J., “Aero-Propulsive Coupling on Wing Integrated Electric Ducted Fan System,” AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, Florida, January 2024, DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-1726

Karli, G., Yan, S., McKillip, Rob., Palacios, J., “Drag Performance Degradation Due to Icing of eVTOL.” 78th Vertical Flight Society Annual Forum and Technology Display, 2022. DOI: 10.4050/F-0078-2022-17533

Raja Zahirudin, R. A., Palacios, J., Yan, S., Nguyen, Xiong, J., “Experimental Acoustic Characterization of Anti-Phase Asymmetric Rotors”, 76th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, 2020. DOI: 10.4050/F-0076-2020-16487

Yan, S., Opazo, T., Langelaan, J., Palacios, J., “Experimental Evaluation and Flight Simulation of Coaxial-Rotor Vehicles in Icing Clouds.”, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 65, No.2, 2020. DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.65.022011

Yan,.S, Scroger, S., Palacios, J., “Experimental Evaluation of Ice Accretion on Coaxial-rotor Vehicles”, 75th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Philadelphia, PA, 2019. DOI: 10.4050/F-0075-2019-14734

Y. Han, Kala, S., Yan, S., Palacios, J., “Partial melting time model verification of a levitated ice particle.”, Cold Regions Science and Technology Vol. 173, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2020.103013

Yan, S., Getz, D., Palacios, J., Kinzel, M., Langelaan, J., “Design, Fabrication and Preliminary Testing of an Experimental Measurement Rig for Co-Axial Rotors.”, AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, San Diego, CA, 2019. DOI: 10.2514/6.2019-1096

Yan,.S, Opazo, T., Palacios, J., Langelaan, J.W., Germain, L.D., “Evaluation of Multi-rotor UAV Operation under Icing Conditions”, 74th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.

Yan, S., Palacios, J., “Experimental Measurement of Ice Accretion Rate in Mixed-phase Icing Cloud.”, 10th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2018. DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-4222

Han, Y., Kala, S., Yan, S., Palacios, J., “Partially Melting of a Suspended Ice Particle under Forced Advection-Diffusion.”, 10th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2018. DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-4221

Yan, S., Palacios, J., “Experimental Measurement of the Percentage of Partial Melting in A Single Ice Crystal.”, 8th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, Washington, D.C., 2016. DOI: 10.2514/6.2016-3741

Palacios, J, Yan, S., Tan, C., Kreeger, R., “Experimental Measurement of Frozen and Partially Melted Water Droplet Impact Dynamics”, 6th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference. 2014. DOI: 10.2514/6.2014-3047

Favorite Cereal

Granola