Fred Nitzsche

Professor Emeritus

• Aeronautical Eng., Instituto Technologico de Aeronautica, Brazil M.Sc., Ph.D. Stanford University
• 6214D Visualization and Simulation Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
• Email Fred Nitzsche

Research Interests:

• Smart Structures
• Aeroelasticity of fixed and rotary wings
• Helicopter Individual Blade Control
• Aeroelastic reduced-order models
• Aeroelastic energy harvesting
• Intelligent horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines and farms

Applications
:

Active vibration and noise reduction in helicopter rotors and wind turbines; vertical fin buffeting alleviation in fighter aircraft; electric energy harvesting from aeroelastic vibrations; horizontal and vertical axis wind turbines and wind farms energy output optimization

Activities:

• Co-leader, Rotorcraft Research Group, Carleton University
• Guest Full Professor, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
• Visiting Professor/Scientist: Polytechnic Institute of Milan (POLIMI), University of Rome “La Sapienza”, University of Rome III, Italy; German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany; Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France; University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Associate Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Elected Member: AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee; International Organizing Committee of International Conference on Adaptive Structures Technologies (ICAST)
• General Chair: ICAST 2007 (Ottawa, Canada)

Publications:

• Lynch, B., Jiang, X-X, Ellery, A., and Nitzsche, F., “Characterization, modeling, and control of Ni-Ti shape memory alloy based on electrical resistance feedback,” Journal of Intelligent Material System and Structures. DOI: 10.1177/ 1045389X16633764, 2016.
• Nitzsche, F., D’Assunção, D., De Marqui Jr., C. “Aeroelastic control of non-rotating and rotating wings using the dynamic stiffness modulation principle via piezoelectric actuators” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 26, No. 13, pp.1656-1668, 2015