Mardanpour, Pezhman
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Materials Engineering , College of Engineering and Computing

Overview
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Prof. Mardanpour received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Under the supervision of professor Dewey H. Hodges, he became an expert in Hodges’s nonlinear composite beam theory as well as the aeroelastic design of UAVs.
After graduating, Prof. Mardanpour joined UCLA as a post-doctoral fellow to serve as the assistant director of the Flutter System Research Center and to work with professor A. V. Balakrishnan on his continuum theory of aeroelasticity and its application on experimental flow-induced vibration and power harvesting.
Before he joined Georgia Tech, Prof. Mardanpour earned another M.S. from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and worked as a research scientist at the Institute of Aeroelasticity at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Göttingen, Germany, where he focused on the experimental aeroelasticity of high-aspect-ratio wings.
A regular contributor to the Journal of Aircraft, the Journal of Fluids and Structures, the Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, and the Journal of Vibration, Sound and Control, Prof. Mardanpour is a professional member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), and the American Physics Society (APS).
research interests
- Aeroelasticity (experimental and theoretical), design based on constructal theory, fluid-structure interaction, structural dynamics, thermodynamics.
Scholarly & Creative Works
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Article
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2022Evolutionary Aeroelastic Design of Flying-Wing Cross SectionFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J060410 Web of Science: 000802220400029
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2021Prediction of fatigue life of a flexible foldable origami antenna with Kresling patternFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.113399 Web of Science: 000719544200002
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2021Stability analysis of an origami helical antenna using geometrically exact fully intrinsic nonlinear composite beam theoryFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.111894 Web of Science: 000632481200002
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2021Inflected wings in flight: Uniform flow of stresses makes strong and light wings for stable flightFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2020.110452 Web of Science: 000581031300001
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2019Constructal Design of Flying Wing Aircraft: Curved and Swept ConfigurationsFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J058315 Web of Science: 000506013100037
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2019Constructal Design of Aircraft: Flow of Stresses and Aeroelastic StabilityFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J057183 Web of Science: 000493056400026
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2019Nonlinear time domain and stability analysis of beams under partially distributed follower forceFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2019.04.031 Web of Science: 000472129000017
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2018Effect of shooting and blast-induced gust on nonlinear aeroelastic stability and behavior of high-aspect ratio wingFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.06.067 Web of Science: 000442656300019
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2017Constructal Theory and Aeroelastic Design of Flexible Flying Wing AircraftFull Text via DOI: 10.3390/aerospace4030035 Web of Science: 000411980400003
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2017Dynamic Stability of Pretwisted Cantilever Beams Subjected to Distributed Follower ForceFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J055421 Web of Science: 000400284500023
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2014Passive morphing of flying wing aircraft: Z-shaped configurationFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.09.020
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Book Chapter
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2014Passive morphing of solar powered flying wing aircraft. 351-356.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40371-2_50
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Book Review
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2020Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society, and Science. Ed. 58.Full Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J059779 Web of Science: 000576984800032
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Conference
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2022Aeroelastic Stability and Flow of Stresses in Wing Cross-SectionFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-0536
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2022Effects of Morphing on Aeroelastic Stability of Flying Wing AircraftFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2022-2557
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2020Constructal approach to design of wing cross-section for better flow of stressesFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2020-0275
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2019A constructal approach to the design of inflected airplane wingsFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2019-0226
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2019Constructal approach in aeroelastic design and analysis of flying wing aircraftFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2019-0552
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2018Geometrically Exact, Fully Intrinsic Analysis of Pre-Twisted Beams Under Distributed Follower Forces. 836-848.Full Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.J055744 Web of Science: 000423512500030
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2017Nonlinear Aeroelastic Gust Suppression and Engine Placement. 2400-2403.Full Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.C034383 Web of Science: 000416574600034
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2016Effect of inertial and constitutive properties on body-freedom flutter for flying wings. 756-767.Full Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.C033435
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2013Passive morphing of flying wing aircraft-part I: Z configurationFull Text via DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-1570
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2013Engine placement effect on nonlinear trim and stability of flying wing aircraft. 1716-1725.Full Text via DOI: 10.2514/1.C031955
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Research
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- EAGER: Constructal Theory for Evolutionary Design of Twisted Paths in Heat Transfer Network awarded by National Science Foundation 2019 - 2022
- DIC and Data Acquisition System for Experimental Verification of the Constructal Theory in Design of Multi-scale Aeroelastic Systems awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2018 - 2019
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Contact
full name
- Pezhman Mardanpour
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1423-0304 (confirmed)
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