Aviation and missile scientist selected as 2015 AHS Technical Fellow Award

By Carlotta Maneice, AMRDEC Public AffairsMarch 20, 2015

Hyeonsoo Yeo
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REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (March 19, 2015) -- An Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center scientist has been selected as a 2015 American Helicopter Society Technical Fellow.

Dr. Hyeonsoo Yeo, Research Aerospace Engineer, Aeroflightdynamics Directorate within the Aviation Development Directorate, receives this award as a result of his highly successful efforts to conduct and lead research investigations in rotorcraft structural dynamics, aeroelastic stability, rotor performance, loads and vibration, comprehensive analyses, and advanced design concepts.

"The AHS International Awards Program has very high standards," said Ed Birtwell, Vice President and General Manager, Turboshaft/Turboprop Engines for GE Aviation and this year's Chair of the Board of AHS International. "Those recognized today are truly outstanding examples of the best that the technical and operational communities have to offer."

Yeo, also a recipient of the FY14 Army Modeling and Simulation Award, played a pivotal role in the revolutionary advances of high-fidelity aeromechanics modeling and simulation analyses for complex rotorcraft configuration by the successful coupling of computational fluid dynamics and computational structural dynamics, and the first-ever use of this coupled methodology to analyze rotor aeroelastic stability.

"I am really honored and humbled to be a part of the AHS Technical Fellows," said Yeo. "To have my research work recognized by the rotorcraft community is awesome."

AHS Technical Fellowships are granted to Society members whose career-based accomplishments towards the goals and objectives of the vertical flight community constitute an outstanding technical achievement.

"Dr. Yeo's selection as an AHS Technical Fellow reflects the vertical lift technical community's greatest recognition of years of not only service, but of achievement, said Layne Merritt, Aviation Development Directorate Chief Engineer. "His contributions in the areas of rotor blade loads, rotor performance and design, and improved comprehensive analysis of rotorcraft have been ground breaking; a large part of why the AMRDEC and the Army are world leaders in the vertical lift technology."

This award will be presented Wednesday, May 6th, at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, Virginia Beach, VA during the AHS Awards Banquet.

The AHS International is the world's oldest and largest technical society dedicated to enhancing the understanding of vertical flight technology. AHS International is a non-profit education and technical organization.

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