The McCormick Lecture

Speaker Bio: Dr. David Lockard joined NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) in 1997 after completing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Penn State University. He began his career during the nascent days of computational aeroacoustics, developing and evaluating computational fluid dynamic methods for acoustic applications. His technical contributions extend from basic research on airframe-noise (AFN) generation and simulation-based predictive tools to concepts for AFN reduction. He has participated in multiple wind-tunnel and flight experiments that have evaluated noise reduction concepts and provided valuable data sets for validating numerical simulations.

Since 2011, Dr. Lockard has been the lead of the maintenance and operations team of K Cluster, the LaRC high-performance computing resource, and for the last two years he has served as the head of the Computational AeroSciences Branch within the LaRC Research Directorate. The branch develops and applies three well-known codes: FUN3D, OVERFLOW, and LASTRAC.

Statements that Influenced a Career

Take a tour of a career and see how comments from parents, professors, mentors, and colleagues helped to shape it. The talk includes highlights from a joint computational and experimental campaign to understand and mitigate slat noise that culminated in a large-scale wind tunnel test. Recent accomplishments in the Computational AeroSciences Branch will also be discussed.