Recent Alumnus Earns AIAA Best Paper Award for Research on Jet Noise

Recent mechanical and aerospace engineering alumnus David Morata (left) and his mentor Professor Dimitri Papamoschou celebrate their AIAA Best Paper Award.

Aug. 19, 2022 – David Morata ’22 (Ph.D.) received a Best Paper Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for his aeroacoustics research titled “Extension of Traditional Beamforming Methods to the Continuous-Scan Paradigm.”

Morata defended his doctorate earlier this summer, after completing his work in the Aeroacoustics Lab of his adviser Dimitri Papamoschou, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Morata’s research focuses on the development of advanced acoustic imaging techniques for localizing and modeling relevant aviation noise sources and the study of propulsion-related noise sources. The award-winning article builds on prior research conducted in the lab that focused on deepening our understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying the generation of noise in aviation to find ways to suppress excessive noise levels.

The paper was initially presented at the AIAA SciTech 2022 conference in San Diego in January. Morata and Papamoschou accepted the award at the AIAA/Council of European Aerospace Societies Aeroacoustics 2022 conference, held in Southampton, United Kingdom this past June.

The research was sponsored by NASA and ATA Engineering, a test, analysis and design consulting firm, through the Small Business Innovation and Research Program.

– Rachel Karas

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