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Dr. Sameer Mulani
Associate Professor, Associate Department Head, Director of Graduate Programs
Contact
- 2054 H.M. Comer
- phone (205) 348-5087
- fax (205) 348-6959
- Faculty Website
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2006
- M. Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, and University of Stuttgart, Germany, 2000
- B.E., Civil Engineering, Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, India, 1996
Dr. Mulani’s research interests are uncertainty quantification, random vibrations, and multi-disciplinary optimization, especially of composite structures’ multi-scale analysis and design. He was awarded a DAAD fellowship to carry out his master’s thesis work at the Universität Stuttgart, Germany. His research on optimization using curvilinear stiffening for panels and wings is well-renowned. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a member of the American Society for Composites, and a member of the German Aerospace Society. He is also an integral part of the Remote Sensing Center (https://rsc.ua.edu/) and leads the antennas’ design, manufacturing, and integration.
For more information about Dr. Mulani’s research, funding, and openings, please visit https://smolab.ua.edu/
Affiliated Areas
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Remote Sensing Center, Alabama Materials Institute
Selected Publications
- Zhao, W., Mulani, S. B., Kapania, R. K., and Sadeghi, M., “Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid-Structure Interaction,” Chapter 6 in Gas Turbine Compressors and Fans: Fundamentals, Design, and Analysis, AIAA, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, ISBN: 978-1-62410-721-4, 2025.
- Thapa, M., Mulani, S. B., Paudel, A., Gupta, S., and Walters, R. W., “Classifier-Based Adaptive Polynomial Chaos Expansion for High-Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 422, 2024, 116829.
- Vishe, N., Mulani, S. B., and Roy, S., “Mode-I Fatigue Crack Growth Mitigation by In-situ Healing in Thermoset CFRP Composite using Thermoplastic Healants,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 61, No. 9, 2023, pp. 4140-4148.
- Vishe, N., Mulani, S. B., and Roy, S., “Repeatable Self-healing of Composite’s Fatigue Delamination,” Composite Structures, Vol. 311, 2023, 116846.
- Gupta, S., Paudel, A., Thapa, M., Mulani, S. B., and Walters, R. W., “Optimal Sampling-Based Neural Networks for Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Optimization,” Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 133, 2023, 108109.
Awards and Honors
- AIAA Associate Fellow, Class of 2025
- 2025 Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
- 2024 Department of the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
- MSC Software Contest Winner: Development of Frameworks for Design Optimization of Stiffened Panels and Supersonic Wings, Simulating Reality, MSC Software Magazine, Vol. 1, Winter 2011, Contest Winner, https://issuu.com/mscsoftware/docs/2011_srm_winter2011_9
- Night on the Town: The General Electric Award recognizes the methodology developed for predicting damping in shrouded buckets within the rotor, successfully implemented in the BDamper tool. It was awarded on 22nd June 2007.
- DAAD Fellowship: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), awarded for pursuing research at the Institut für Statik und Dynamik der Luft-und-Raumfahrtkonstruktionen, Uinverstität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany from May 1999 to February 2000.
Dr. Mulani's Impact
UA Researchers Developing Way for Materials to Repair Themselves
Engineering researchers at The University of Alabama are exploring a promising path to self-repair for materials often used in the aerospace industry, possibly saving time and money while improving safety.
Probabilistic methods gain traction for designing complex systems
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