Sean Torrez was born in Albuquerque, NM, where he lived until moving to Boston to attend MIT in 2003. He graduated with a BS in Aerospace Engineering in 2007, when he moved to University of Michigan to continue studies in Aerospace Engineering. In 2009, he received his MS. He is currently a PhD candidate at UM.
Sean’s main research interests are in the fields of numerical simulations of high-speed reacting flows and low-order modeling. The main research effort of Sean’s PhD has been a project called MASIV/MASTrim. This code uses low-order methods to simulate a hypersonic airplane from tip to tail, providing engineering-level performance calculations (i.e. thrust, drag, moment, etc.) for the vehicle in flight.
Other aspects of numerical simulation Sean has worked on include Mach number definition and sonic point calculation, constrained optimal control, and state-space path finding. Sean’s current research efforts are in the areas of automatic and optimal design, including establishing initial configurations and verifying regions of robust operation.
Contact
smtorrez at umich dot edu
1320 Beal Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(617) 894-8608