Publications

• J. Mehr, T. Critchfield, E. J. Alvarez, and A. Ning (2026). "Aero-Structural-Acoustic Gradient-based Optimization of Electric Ducted Fans." (in review) [PDF]

• C. Joseph, R. Anderson, E. J. Alvarez, and A. Ning (2026). "GPU Kernel Design and Launch Configuration Selection for Differentiable Vortex Particle Simulations." (in review)

• J. Mehr, E. J. Alvarez, and A. Ning (2025). "Interactional Aerodynamics Analysis of a Multi-Rotor Energy Kite." Wind Energy. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2024). "Meshless Large Eddy Simulation of Propeller-Wing Interactions Through the Reformulated Vortex Particle Method." Journal of Aircraft. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2024). "Stable Vortex Particle Method Formulation for Meshless Large-Eddy Simulation." AIAA Journal [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2020). "High-fidelity Modeling of Multirotor Aerodynamic Interactions for Aircraft Design." AIAA Journal. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. P. Ribaric (2018). "An improved-accuracy method for fatigue load analysis of wind turbine gearbox based on SCADA". Renewable Energy. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez, V. Ahuja, V. Lakshminarayan, A. Perry, R. Anderson, and A. Ning (2025). "Actuator Disk Model for Aeropropulsive Coupling Effects in Vortex Particle Method." AIAA SciTech Forum. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez, C. Joseph, and A. Ning (2023). "Vortex Particle Method for Electric Ducted Fan in Non-Axisymmetric Flow." AIAA AVIATION FORUM. [SLIDES][PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2022). "FLOWUnsteady: An Interactional Aerodynamics Solver for Multirotor Aircraft and Wind Energy." AIAA AVIATION Forum. [VIDEO][PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez, A. Schenk, T. Critchfield, and A. Ning (2020). "Rotor-on-Rotor Aeroacoustic Interactions of Multirotor in Hover." Vertical Flight Society 76th Forum. [SLIDES][PDF]

• J. Mehr, E. J. Alvarez, and A. Ning (2020). "Unsteady Aerodynamic Analysis of Wind Harvesting Aircraft". AIAA AVIATION Forum. [VIDEO][PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2019). "Modeling Multirotor Aerodynamic Interactions Through the Vortex Particle Method." AIAA AVIATION Forum. [SLIDES][PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2018). "Development of a Vortex Particle Code for the Modeling of Wake Interaction in Distributed Propulsion". AIAA AVIATION Forum. [SLIDES][PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez (2022). "Reformulated Vortex Particle Method and Meshless Large Eddy Simulation of Multirotor Aircraft". Doctoral Dissertation, Brigham Young University. [PDF]

• E. J. Alvarez & C. Joseph (2024). "Vortex Particle Method with FLOWUnsteady + OpenVSP." OpenVSP Workshop. Seattle, Washington. [SLIDES]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2022). "Meshless Large Eddy Simulation of Multirotor Aircraft through the Reformulated Vortex Particle Method." AMS Seminar Series. NASA Ames Research Center. [VIDEO][SLIDES]

• E. J. Alvarez & A. Ning (2019). "Vortex Particle Method and Multirotor Aircraft Aerodynamics." Army Research Laboratory. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

• A. P. Ribaric & E. J. Alvarez (2017). "True fatigue load analysis of wind turbines based on SCADA." Wind Europe Conference. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• R. M. Oakey, E. J. Alvarez, and S. L. Thomson (2016). "Simultaneously modeling of multiple fluid-structure interaction subsystems of the human vocal folds." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. DOI: 10.1121/1.4970611

• E. J. Alvarez & S. L. Thomson (2016). "Simulations of three-dimensional, self-oscillating vocal fold replicas with liquid-filled cavities." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. DOI: 10.1121/1.4950646