UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1347 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 1347

Submission ID: 21331

Submission UUID: 6e0f72bb-3fa8-4b73-9aec-bc2a4b398eed

Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Created: Sun, 08/24/2025 - 07:04 PM

Completed: Sun, 08/24/2025 - 07:04 PM

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Language: English

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Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Ryan Gosse

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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) rgosse@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Position Title Faculty

FSU College (if applicable) FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Overall Project Details

Title of the Project Hypersonic Flight AI Gymnasium

Project Keywords Hypersonic Flight Machine Learning

Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes

Number of Research Assistants Needed 2

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) All College of Engineering Majors

Project Location: On FSU Main Campus

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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): In-person

Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 8

Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)

Overall Research Project Description Work with industry to conduct research on developing reduced order models (ROMs) that can be efficiently employed in an AI training environment. The objective will be to start with existing computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation results and conduct post processing operations to develop a correlation to physics-based ROM flight environment that captures boundary layer transition, heat transfer, and structural loading to enable optimization during preliminary design. As capabilities are developed, research will be conducted on how to integrate models into a machine learning (ML) workflow such as PyTorch.

Research Tasks 1. CFD post processing tool to extract flow feature information such as boundary layer height, momentum thickness, and any other parameters that would drive the developed ROM models.
2. Boundary layer transition correlation-based ROM
3. Development of Heat Transfer ROM. Physics-Informed Neural Network forward problem of simulating structure temperature distribution under a given heat flux or boundary condition derived from a CFD solution database.
4. Piston theory ROM development for static and dynamic aeroelasticity.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Recommended experience with Matlab, Python, and PyTorch programing languages.

Mentoring Philosophy Working with undergraduate students through the research project, I believe they have to work on something engaging and not just a hired hand to assist a graduate student. This means we work on projects that let the student grow at their pace along with not being on the critical research path of a graduate student. They are expected to present their work and I work with them on how to effectively communicate as an engineer in a proactive way. This has led to many undergraduate students appreciating the research environment and they typically will have high levels of enthusiasm to continue their education as a graduate student. We also will focus on undergraduate developing additional industry skills that will make them stand out from the crowd when they graduate. This project will have an industry partner that may lead to summer internships.

Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable): https://fcaap.fsu.edu/aeromorph/

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? Yes

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Roundtable Info

Day: Wednesday, September 3
Start Time: 3:00
End Time: 3:30
Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/95567039866
Day: Friday, September 5
Start Time: 1:00
End Time: 1:30
Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93358456205

UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Year 2025

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