Recent publications

TURBOFAN FAN-STAGE NOISE:

    1. On the Use of a Low-Order Model for Rig- and Full-Scale Turbofan Broadband Noise Predictions,” Nuo Li, Julian Winkler, Craig Aaron Reimann, Jeffrey M. Mendoza, Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2026-3611, June 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-3611.
    2. Effect of FEGV Placement on Fan Broadband Interaction Noise,” Nuo Li, Julian Winkler, Craig Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeffrey M. Mendoza, Sheryl M. Grace, submitted to International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Aug., 2025.
    3. Low-Order Methods for Analysis of Impact of Fan Design on Fan Stage Broadband Interaction Noise,” Nuo Li, Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2025-3650, July 2025. 10.2514/6.2025-3650.
    4. Machine Learning Aided Low-Order Predictions of Fan Stage Broadband Interaction Noise”, Nuo Li, Yifan Zhang, Julian Winkler, C. Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeff Mendoza, and Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Journal, Feb., 2024. DOI: 10.2514/1.J063148
    5. Effect of Straight and Swept FEGV Placement on Fan Broadband Interaction Noise”, Nuo Li, Julian Winkler, C. Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeff Mendoza, and Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Papaer No. 2024-3161, June 2024. 10.2514/6.2024-3161
    6. “Investigation of the Effect of FEGV Placement on Fan Broadband Interaction Noise”, Nuo Li, Julian Winkler, C. Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeff  Mendoza, and Sheryl M. Grace, accepted for Aeroacoustics, June 2024.
    7. “Machine Learning Aided Low-Order Predictions of Fan Stage Broadband Interaction Noise”, Nuo Li, Yifan Zhang, Julian Winkler, C. Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeff Mendoza, and Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Journal, Feb. 2024. http://arc.aiaa.org | DOI: 10.2514/1.J063148
    8. “Development of fully low-order prediction of fan broadband interaction noise via integration of machine learning”, Nuo Li, Yifan Zhang, Julian Winkler, C. Aaron Reimann, Dmytro Voytovych, Jeff Mendoza, and Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2023-0523, June 2023.
    9. “Multirotor Trim Optimization Using Loose Aerodynamic Coupling,” Austin Thai, Beatrice Roget, Jay Sitaraman, and Sheryl Grace, accepted Journal of the American Helicopter Society, June, 2023.
    10. “Experiments on Water Droplet Breakup in a Detonation Medium,” Sydney Briggs, Nicolas Berube, Daniel Dyson, Reed Forehand, Michael Kinzel, Subith S. Vasu, Sheryl Grace, and Phillip Anderson, AIAA Paper No. 2023-2257, Jan. 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2257.
    11. “Multi-Scale Modeling of Shock-Droplet InteractionWithin a Shock Tube,” Reed W. Forehand, Khanh, C. Nguyen, Caroline J. Anderson, Sydney Briggs, Nicolas Berube, Subith S. Vasu, Michael P. Kinzel and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2023-2304, Jan. 2023. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2304.
    12. “Fan Wake Prediction Via Machine Learning,”  Zijie Huang, Austin Thai, Berkely Watchmann, Tyler Ramsarran, Julia Winkler, Michael Joly, Jeff Mendoza, Sheryl Grace,  AIAA Paper No. 2022-2883, June, 2022.
    13. “Fan-stage broadband interaction noise trends based on fan geometry,”  Nuo Li, Berkely Watchmann, Tyler Ramsarran, Julian Winkler, Dymtro Voytovych,  Jeff Mendoza, Sheryl Grace,  AIAA Paper No. 2022-2884, June, 2022.
    14. “Analysis of LBM/VLES fan-stage gap-flow data to inform simulation of fan broadband noise,” Sheryl Grace, Ignacio Gonzalez-Martino and Damiano Casalino, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 377(2159):80-98, 2019.
    15. “Analysis of fan-stage gap flow data generated using an LBM/VLES method,” Sheryl Grace, Ignacio Gonzalez-Martino and Damiano Casalino, AIAA Paper No. 2019-2668, May, 2019
    16. “Comparison of two low-order models for the prediction of fan broadband noise,” Sheryl Grace and Michaela Logue, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 431(29):304-327, 2018.
    17. “Statistics and structure of turbulence in fan/OGV interstage and their aeroacoustic implications,” Sheryl M. Grace, Ignacio Gonzalez-Martino and Damiano Casalino, AIAA Paper No. 2018-4186, June 2018.
    18. “Inclusion of geometry in a gust-cascade interaction prediction via a BVI method,” Dorien Villafranco and Sheryl M. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2017-3717, June 2017.
    19. “Influence of Model Parameters and the Vane Response Method on a Low-Order Prediction of Fan Broadband Noise,” Sheryl Grace, International Journal of Aeroacoustics,  January-March; vol. 15, 1-2: pp. 131–143, 2016.
    20. “Comparison of methods for adding vane geometry in a low-order fan broadband noise prediction.” Sheryl Grace and Dorien Vellafranco, AIAA Paper No. 2016-2946, 2016.
    21. “Further Investigations Into a Low-Order Model of Fan Broadband Noise,” Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2015-3283, June 2015.
    22. “Fan Broadband Interaction Noise Modeling Using a Low-Order Method,” Sheryl Grace, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 346: 402-423, 2015. http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QmQI,WhmxIE7
    23. “Analysis of Mean Loading Effects in Fan Broadband Noise Simulations,” Sheryl M Grace, Tim Farmer, and Lorna Ayton, AIAA Paper, AIAA Paper No. 2014-2944, June, 2014.
    24. “Characteristics of Turbulence in a Turbofan Stage,” Jeremy Maunus, Sheryl Grace, Doug Sondak, and Victor Yakhot, Journal of Turbomachinery, 135(2):021024-1-10 March, 2013.
    25. `Prediction of broadband fan exit guide vane response,” Sheryl M Grace and Gilbert Forsyth, AIAA Paper, AIAA Paper No. 2013-2153. June 2013.
    26. “Fan Broadband Interaction Noise Modeling,”  Sheryl Grace, Andy Wixom, Doug Sondak, Michaela Logue, andJulian Winkler, AIAA Paper, AIAA Paper No. 2012-2269. June 2012.
    27. “Effect of CFD Wake Predition in a Hybrid Simulation of Fan Broadband Noise,” Jeremy Maunus, Sheryl Grace, and Doug Sondak, AIAA Paper No. 2011-2875, June 2011.
    28. “Experimental validation of RANS turbulence parameters for turbofans,” Jeremy Maunus, Sheryl Grace, Doug Sondak, and Victor Yakhot. GT2011-45906, ASME Turbo Expo 2011. (presented by Doug Sondak)
    29. “Effect of Rotor Wake Structure on Fan Interaction Noise,” Jeremy Maunus, Sheryl Grace, and Doug Sondak, AIAA Paper No. 2010-3746, 2010. (presented by Jeremy Maunus)

    CAVITATION RELATED:

    1. Novel Methods for Evaluating Shock-Droplet Interactions, Brendon A. Cavainolo, Juan P. Roldan, Michael P. Kinzel, Rebecca Shannon, Sheryl Grace,
      AIAA Paper No. 2026-1733, 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-1733
    2. Water Droplet Breakup in a Hypersonic Shock Environment,
      Mikayla Lindsay, Sydney Briggs, Anthony Aguilera, Subith S. Vasu, Michael Kinzel, Sheryl Grace, Phillip Anderson, AIAA Paper No. 2026-1736, July 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-1736.
    3. Water Droplet Breakup Experiments using Acoustic Levitator at Upper Atmospheric Conditions in a Shock Tube, Anthony J. Aguilera, Sydney M. Briggs, Mikayla Lindsay, Bryan Suarez, Subith Vasu, Michael Kinzel, Sheryl M. Grace and Phillip Anderson, AIAA Papper No. 2026-0001, 10.2514/6.2026-0001
    4. Investigation of Water Droplet Breakup in a Shock Environment With High-Speed Imaging,” Sydney M. Briggs, Nicolas Berube, Anthony Aguilera, Michael P. Kinzel, Subith Vasu, Sheryl Grace and Phillip Anderson, AIAA Paper No. 2025-2057, Jan 2025. 10.2514/6.2025-2057
    5. “Influence of Bubble Dynamics on Kelvin Helmholtz Type Interface Instability,” R. Shannon, S. Grace, M. Kinzel, R. G. Holt,  AIAA Paper No. 2024-2194, Jan 2024.
    6. “Investigation of Cavitation in Water Droplet Breakup from Shock Waves,” S. Briggs, N. Berube, D. Dyson, A. Aguilera, R. Forehand, M. Kinzel, S. Vasu, S. Grace, and P. Anderson, AIAA Paper No. 2024-2191, Jan 2024.
    7. “A Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Cavitation on Hypersonic Shock-Raindrop Interaction and Breakup,” R. Forehand;, K. Nguyen, S. Briggs, N. Berube, S. Vasu, M. Kinzel, S. Vasu, S. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2024-2192, Jan 2024.
    8. “Onto Modeling of Cavitation Inside a Cylindrical Water Column Exposed to High-Speed Shocks,” K. Nguyen, R. Forehand, S. Briggs, N. Berube, S. Vasu, M. Kinzel, S. Vasu, S. Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2024-2195, Jan 2024.
    9. “An Assessment of Shock-Droplet Interaction Modeling Including Cavitation,” R. W. Forehand, K. C. Nguyen, C. J. Anderson, R. Shannon, M. P. Kinzel,1 and S. M. Grace, Physics of Fluids, 35(2), Jan, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0136536.
    10. “Experiments on Water Droplet Breakup in a Detonation Medium,” Sydney Briggs, Nicolas Berube,  Daniel Dyson, Reed Forehand, Michael Kinzel, Subith S. Vasu, Sheryl Grace, and Phillip Anderson, AIAA Paper No. 2023-2257, Jan. 2023.
    11. “Multi-Scale Modeling of Shock-Droplet InteractionWithin a Shock Tube”, Reed W. Forehand, Khanh C. Nguyen, Caroline J. Anderson, Sydney Briggs, Nicolas Berube, Subith S. Vasu, Michael P. Kinzel and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2023-2304, Jan. 2023.
    12. “Towards the improvement of Eulerian Mixture Method Cavitation Models for use in internal nozzle flows”, Dorien Villafranco and Sheryl Grace, in development, 2020.
    13. “Assessment of cavitation models in the prediction of cavitation in nozzle flow,” Dorien O. Villafranco, Ankush Gupta, Emily M. Ryan, R. Glynn Holt, Sheryl M. Grace, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 143(1): 011403-418, 2021.
    14. “Comparison of Surface Tension Generation Methods in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Dynamic Systems,” Erin Arai, Alexandre Tartakovsky, R. Glynn Holt, Sheryl Grace, and Emily Ryan, Computers and Fluids, 203(15):104540 , 2020.
    15. “Simulating Bubble Dynamics in a Buoyant System,” Erin Arai, Dorien Villafranco, Emily Ryan, Sheryl Grace, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 92(3): 169-188, March, 2020.
    16. “Assessment of cavitation models in the prediction of cavitation in nozzle flow,” Dorien O. Villafranco, Huy K. Do, Sheryl M. Grace, Emily M. Ryan, R. Glynn Holt, ASME Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer Conference, FEDSM2018-83223, July 2018.

    QUADROTOR PERFORMANCE AND NOISE:

    1. An Application of Amiet’s Model for Turbulence Ingestion to eVTOL Propellers, Adam Rozman, Andrea Piccolo and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2026-3600, 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-3600.
    2. High-Fidelity Simulations of eVTOL Rotor Turbulence Ingestion Noise,” Vadim Voropayev, Alireza Maleki, Stanley Ossyra, Jordan Mills, Jie Hua, Michael Marques, Sheryl Grace, Anastasios S. Lyrintzis, Reda R. Mankbadi, Vladimir V. Golubev, AIAA Paper No. 2026-3599, July 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-3599
    3. High-fidelity simulations of noise induced by time-harmonic gust interaction with eVTOL rotor, Vadim Voropayev, Michael Marques, Alireza Maleki, Tasos Lyrintzis, Reda Mankbadi, Sheryl Grace, Vladimir Golubev, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Feb, 2026, 10.1177/1475472X261419081
    4. Numerical Simulation of Vortex Formation and Convection of Pitching Airfoils Undergoing Dynamic Stall, Seyyed Salehian, Nuo Li and Sheryl Grace, AIAA SciTech, Jan 2026.
    5. Prediction of Performance and Noise of a Small Quadrotor Using CHARM, Adam Rozman and Elliot Macrae-Sadek and Mei Cable and David Gard and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2026-1479, Jan 2026. 10.2514/6.2026-1479.
    6. Investigation of Noise Prediction for a Five-Bladed Propeller on an Urban Air Mobility Vehicle under Edgewise Flow Using Permeable Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings Surfaces,” Jie Hua, Sheryl Grace, Vladimir Golubev and Reda Mankbadi, Physics of Fluids, Oct, 2025. 10.1063/5.0284165
    7. Evaluation of Urban-Flow-Informed Gusts on eVTOL Vertiport Approach Acoustics, Adam Rozman and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2025-3003, July 2025. 10.2514/6.2025-3003.
    8. High-Fidelity Simulations of Vertiport Gust Effects on eVTOL Rotor Noise, Vadim Voropayev, Michael Marques, Alireza Maleki, Sheryl Grace, Anastasios Lyrintzis, Reda Mankbadi, and Vladimir Golubev, AIAA Paper No. 2025-3001, July 2025. 10.2514/6.2025-3001.
    9. A Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis of Turbulent Flow Around a High-Rise Build- ing, Alireza Maleki, Reda Mankbadi, Vladimir Golubev and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2025- 3487, July 2025. 10.2514/6.2025-3487.
    10. “Evaluating the Permeable Surface Approach for Wing-Propeller Aeroacoustics using High-Fidelity CFD,” Adam Rozman, Henry J. Zhongqi, Steve Tran, and Shere Grace, VFS, TVF paper, Feb, 2024.
    11. Validation of Variable Rotor Speed Trim Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, Austin Thai, Beat- rice Roget, Jay Sitaraman, Nikolas Zawodny and Sheryl Grace, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 69(1):1-12. Jan, 2024. DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.69.012008.
    12. “Multirotor Trim Optimization Using  Loose Aerodynamic Coupling,” Austin Thai, Beatrice Roget,  Jay Sitaraman,  and Sheryl Grace, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, submitted 2/2023.
    13. “The Effect of Turbulence Modeling Selection within HPCMP CREATE-AV Helios for Small Quadrotor Aerodynamics,” Austin Thai, Rohit Jain, and Sheryl Grace, Journal of Aircraft, 59(4), 927-945, 2022.
    14. “Experimental and Computational Aeroacoustic Investigation of Small Rotor Interactions in Hover,” Austin Thai, Elisa De Paola, Alessandro Di Marco, Luana Georgiana Stoica, Roberto Camussi, Roberto Tron and Sheryl Grace, Applied Sciences, 11(21), 1-27, Oct, 2021.
    15. “Multirotor Trim using Loose Aerodynamic Coupling,” Austin Thai, Beatrice Roget, Jay Sitaraman, and Sheryl Grace, VFS Aeromechanics for Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Meeting, Jan. 2020.
    16. “Prediction of small quadrotor blade induced noise,” Austin Thai and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2019-2684, May, 2019.
    17. “CFD Validation of Small Quadrotor Performance using CREATE-AV Helios,” Austin Thai, Rohit Jain, and Sheryl Grace, Vertical Flight Society 75th Annual Forum, May, 2019.
    18. “A numerical study of important flow effects for quadrotor performance in hover,” Austin Thai and Sheryl Grace Region I, Student Paper Conference, March, 2019

    OTHER RECENT:

    1. Flow structures near a tall urban air mobility vertiport: a large-eddy simulation study, Emmanuel Akinlabi, Alireza Maleki, Vladimir Golubev, Sheryl Grace, Dan Li, submitted to Wind Engineering, Feb, 2025.
    2. Influence of Inflow Turbulence on Wake Dynamics of a Square Cylinder, Alireza Maleki, Sheryl Grace, Reda Mankbadi and Vladimir Golubev, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Feb., 2026. 10.1017/jfm.2026.11123.
    3. “Approximating Ocean Acoustic Fields with Finite Series of Basis Functions for Autonomous Vehicle Applications,” Caitlin Bogdan, Sheryl Grace and J. Greg McDaniel, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, online-ready, Oct. 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1142/S2591728519500026).
    4. “Acoustic emission from one-dimensional vibrating porous panels in a single-sided flow,” Rozhin Hajian, Justin Jaworski, and Sheryl Grace, AIAA Paper No. 2018-2962, June 2018.