DATE:                            Thursday, 14 April 2022

TIME:                             4:00pm 

SPEAKER:                    Metodi Zlatinov, Senior Engineer, ERG Aerospace Corporation

TOPIC:                          Metal Foam in Aerospace: Mechanical and Aerothermal Applications

ABSTRACT:

Open celled metal foam is a porous structure with unique mechanical and fluid dynamics characteristics, making it ideally suited for aerospace applications ranging from light-weighting to impact protection to thermal management. These days additive manufacturing is garnering a great deal of interest with its promise of “free complexity”, but the mature technology of metal foam produced by non-additive approaches still delivers smaller feature sizes with higher reliability, lower cost and greater scalability. In this seminar we will go over some metal foam basics, and introduce a few of its applications in commercial aerospace systems.

BIOGRAPHY:
Metodi Zlatoinov is a Senior Engineer at ERG Aerospace, responsible for leading R&D efforts on open celled metal foam for application in high performance heat exchangers, flow control components and energy absorbers. Prior to joining ERG, Zlatinov advanced the state of the art in CFD-based optimization while developing cooling technologies for gas turbines at GE Aviation, and later led the fluid design and hydraulic testing efforts for novel hydroelectric turbines at Natel Energy. Zlatinov earned his S.M in Aeronautics and Astronautics from M.I.T, and a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.