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Sicheng Kevin Li

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Acoustical Engineering

College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
860.768.4763 UT 302B ResearchGate
Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2022

MS, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2020

BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2018


Sicheng Kevin Li received his PhD, MS, and BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Davis, where he developed the reputable rotorcraft noise assessment tool UCD-QuietFly. Currently, Li is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Hartford, with active research programs in advanced air mobility (AAM), aeroacoustics, rotorcraft aerodynamics and wake modeling, and vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) noise. His research advances our understanding of aerospace problems using high-fidelity simulations, physics-based modeling, and experiments.

Li served as the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) Acoustics Committee member, and as the reviewer for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal, the International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, and the VFS and AIAA conferences. He was the recipient of the VFS Acoustics Best Paper Award.

Li is recruiting motivated students to work on the following research projects. If you are interested in the research areas, please send an email to sli@hartford.edu.

  • Helicopter blade wake interaction (BWI) noise
  • Ground-based acoustics measurements of small-scale UAS
  • Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of noise reduction techniques

Research Areas

  • Helicopter Aeromechanics
  • Aeroacoustics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Numerical Methods and Simulation
  • Urban Air Mobility

Teaching Interests

  • Aerodynamics
  • Aircraft Design
  • Aerospace Structures
  • Aerospace Dyanmics, Stability, and Control
  • Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
  • Aeroacoustics
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Prediction of Urban Air Mobility Multi-Rotor VTOL Broadband Noise Using UCD-QuietFly,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 66, (3),  2021, pp. 1-13. doi: 10.4050/JAHS.66.032004
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Prediction of Rotorcraft Broadband Trailing-Edge Noise and Parameter Sensitivity Study,” Journal of the American Helicopter Society}, Vol. 65, (4),  2020, pp. 1-14. doi: 10.4050/JAHS.65.042006
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Acoustic Analysis and Sound Quality Assessment of a Quiet Helicopter for Air Taxi Operations,”  Journal of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 67, (3), 2022, pp. 1-15. doi: 10.4050/JAHS.67.032001
  • Li, S., “An Analytic Method to Predict Rotor Blade Wake Interaction Noise,” the VFS 79th Annual Forum, West Palm Beam, FL, May 16-18, 2023.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Extensions and Applications of Lyu and Ayton's Serrated Trailing-Edge Noise Model to Rotorcraft,” 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics 2022 Conference, Southampton, UK, June 14-17, 2022.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Analytic Prediction of Rotor Broadband Noise with Serrated Trailing Edges,” the VFS 78th Annual Forum \& Technology Display, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, May 10-12, 2022.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Predictions and Validations of Small-Scale Rotor Noise Using UCD-QuietFly,” the 2020 VFS Aeromechanics for Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Meeting, San Jose, CA, January 25-27, 2022.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Acoustics Analysis of a Quiet Helicopter for Air Taxi Operations,” the VFS 77th Annual Forum, West Palm Beach, FL, May 11-13, 2021.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “A Machine Learning-Based Fast Prediction of Rotorcraft Broadband Noise,” the 2020 AIAA Aviation Forum, Virtual Event, June 15-17, 2020. doi:10.2514/6.2020-2588
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “UCD-QuietFly: A New Program to Predict Multi-Rotor eVTOL Broadband Noise,” the 2020 VFS Aeromechanics for Advanced Vertical Flight Technical Meeting, San Jose, CA, January 21-23, 2020.
  • Li, S., and Lee, S., “Prediction of Rotorcraft Broadband Trailing-Edge Noise and Parameter Sensitivity Study,” the VFS 75th Annual Forum, Philadelphia, PA, May 13–16, 2019.