Bio

Founding Engineer at Luminary Cloud. Co-founder and Executive Director of the SU2 Foundation. Received PhD and MS degrees in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University, and holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Research interests include computational fluid dynamics (CFD), optimal shape design via adjoint-based methods, and high performance computing. One of the original developers and a maintainer of the open-source SU2 software package for multiphysics analysis and design.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Burghardt, O., Gomes, P., Kattmann, T., Economon T. D., Gauger, N. R., Palacios, R., "Discrete adjoint methodology for general multiphysics problems," Struct Multidisc Optim 65, 28 (2022). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-021-03117-5.
  2. Garbacz, C., Maier, W. T., Scoggins, J. B., Economon, T. D., Magin, T., Alonso, J. J., Fossati, M., "Shock interactions in inviscid air and CO2–N2 flows in thermochemical non-equilibrium," Shock Waves 31, 239–253 (2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-021-00999-8.
  3. Zhou, B. Y., Albring T., Gauger, N. R., Ilario da Silva, C. R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Efficient airframe noise reduction framework via adjoint-based shape optimization," AIAA Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2 (2021), pp. 580-595. doi: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058917.
  4. Belbute-Peres, F. D. A., Economon, T. D., Kolter, Z., "Combining differentiable PDE solvers and graph neural networks for fluid flow prediction," Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 119:2402-2411, 2020. doi: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/de-avila-belbute-peres20a.html.
  5. Economon, T. D., "Simulation and Adjoint-based Design for Variable Density Incompressible Flows with Heat Transfer," AIAA Journal, 58:2, pp. 757-769, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J058222.
  6. Thomas D., Cerquaglia M. L., Boman, R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Dimitriadis, G., Terrapon, V. E., "CUPyDO - An integrated Python environment for coupled fluid-structure simulations," Advances in Engineering Software, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 128 (2019), pp. 69-85. doi: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2018.05.007.
  7. Rubino A., Pini, M., Colonna, P., Albring, T., Nimmagadda, S., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Adjoint-based fluid dynamic design optimization in quasi-periodic unsteady flow problems using a harmonic balance method," Journal of Computational Physics, 372 (1), pp. 220-235, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2018.06.023.
  8. Sanchez R., Albring T., Palacios R., Gauger N. R., Economon T. D., Alonso J. J., "Coupled adjoint‐based sensitivities in large‐displacement fluid‐structure interaction using algorithmic differentiation," Int J Numer Meth Engng. 2018;113:1081–1107. doi: 10.1002/nme.5700.
  9. Pini, M., Vitale, S., Colonna, P., Gori, G., Guardone, A., Economon, T., Alonso, J., Palacios, F., "SU2: the open-source software for non-ideal compressible flows," Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 821, IOP Publishing, 2017, p. 012013. doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/821/1/012013.
  10. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Bansal, G., Mudigere, D., Deshpande, A., Heinecke, A., Smelyanskiy, M., "Performance optimizations for scalable implicit RANS calculations with SU2," Computers and Fluids, Vol. 129 (2016), pp. 146-158. doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.02.003.
  11. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Copeland, S. R., Lukaczyk, T. W., Alonso, J. J., "SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multi-Physics Simulation and Design," AIAA Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3 (2016), pp. 828-846. doi: 10.2514/1.J053813.
  12. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach for Aerodynamic Design on Dynamic Meshes," AIAA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 9 (2015), pp. 2437-2453. doi: 10.2514/1.J053763.

Conference Papers

  1. Gomes, P., Economon, T. D., Palacios, R., "Sustainable high-performance optimizations in SU2," AIAA Paper 2021-0855, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, January 2021.
  2. Burghardt, O., Gauger, N. R., Gomes, P., Palacios, R., Kattmann, T., Economon T. D., "Coupled Discrete Adjoints for Multiphysics in SU2," AIAA Paper 2020-3139, AIAA Aviation 2020 Forum, June 2020.
  3. Gomes, C., Fossati, M., Maier, W., Alonso, J. J., Scoggins, J. B., Magin, T., Economon, T. D., "Numerical Study of Shock Interference Patterns for Nonequilibrium Gas Flows," AIAA Paper 2020-1805, AIAA SciTech Forum 2020, Orlando, FL, January 2020.
  4. Burghardt, O., Gauger, N., Economon. T. D., "Coupled Adjoint-based Design for Conjugate Heat Transfer in Variable Density Incompressible Flows," AIAA Paper 2019-3668, AIAA Aviation Forum 2019, Dallas, TX, June 2019.
  5. Venkatesan-Crome, C., Palacios R., Kattmann, T., Sanchez R., Gauger, N., Economon. T. D., "Discrete Adjoint for Unsteady Incompressible Flows using a Density-based Formulation," AIAA Paper 2019-3669, AIAA Aviation Forum 2019, Dallas, TX, June 2019.
  6. Economon, T. D., "Simulation and Adjoint-based Design for Variable Density Incompressible Flows with Heat Transfer," AIAA Paper 2018-3111, AIAA AVIATION Forum, 2018 Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2018. [ ]
  7. Nimmagadda, S., Economon. T. D., Alonso, J. J., Ilario da Silva, C. R., Zhou, Y., Albring, T., "Low-cost unsteady discrete adjoints for aeroacoustic optimization using temporal and spatial coarsening techniques", AIAA Paper 2018-1911, 2018 AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, Kissimmee, FL, January 2018.
  8. Singh, K., Drikakis, D., Frank, M., Kokkinakis, I. W., Alonso, J. J., Economon, T. D., van der Weide, E., "Comparison of the Finite Volume and Discontinuous Galerkin schemes for the Double Vortex Pairing Problem using the SU2 Software Suite", AIAA Paper 2018-1833, 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, Kissimmee, FL, January 2018.
  9. Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Albring, T., Gauger, N., "Adjoint Formulation Investigations of Benchmark Aerodynamic Design Cases in SU2," AIAA Paper 2017-4363, 35th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017. [ ]
  10. Molina, E. S., Spode, C., Gil Annes da Silva, R., Manosalvas-Kjono, D., Nimmagadda, S., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Righi, M., "Hybrid RANS/LES Implementation in SU2," AIAA Paper 2017-4284, 23rd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017.
  11. Munguia, B. C., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "A Discrete Adjoint Framework for Low-Boom Supersonic Aircraft Shape Optimization," AIAA Paper 2017-3326, 18th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017.
  12. Zhou, Y., Albring, T., Gauger, N., Ilario da Silva, C. R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Reduction of Airframe Noise Components Using a Discrete Adjoint Approach," AIAA Paper 2017-3658, 18th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017.
  13. Manosalvas-Kjono, D., Economon, T. D., Othmer, C., Jameson, A., "Computations of Active Flow Control for Heavy Vehicle Drag Reduction," AIAA Paper 2017-3567, 35th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA AVIATION Forum, Denver, CO, June 2017.[ ]
  14. Thomas D., Variyar, A., Boman, R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Dimitriadis, G., Terrapon, V. E., "Staggered Strong Coupling Between Existing Fluid and Solid Solvers Through a Python Interface for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems," Proceedings of the VII International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2017.
  15. Zhou, Y., Albring, T., Gauger, N., Ilario da Silva, C. R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "A Discrete Adjoint Approach for Jet-Flap Interaction Noise Reduction," AIAA Paper 2017-0130, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Grapevine, TX, January 2017.
  16. Sanchez, R., Albring, T., Palacios, R., Gauger, N. R., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Optimal Actuation of Dielectric Membrane Wings using High-Fidelity Fluid-Structure Modelling," AIAA Paper 2017-0857, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Grapevine, TX, January 2017.
  17. Variyar, A., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Design and Optimization of Unconventional Aircraft Configurations with Aeroelastic Constraints," AIAA Paper 2017-0463, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Grapevine, TX, January 2017.
  18. Economon, T. D., Papoutsis-Kiachagias, E., Kavvadias, I., Magoulas, N., Othmer, C., Giannakoglou, K., Alonso, J. J., "Assessing Adjoint-Derived Aerodynamic Sensitivities in the Presence of Flow Separation," ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 2016.
  19. Sanchez, R., Kline, H. L., Thomas, D., Variyar, A., Righi, M., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Palacios, R., Terrapon, V., Dimitriadis, G., "Assessment of the Fluid-Structure Interaction capabilities for aeronautical applications of the open-source solver SU2," ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 2016.
  20. Nimmagadda, S., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Ilario da Silva, C. R., "Robust uniform time sampling approach for the harmonic balance method," AIAA Paper 2016-3966, 46th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2016.
  21. Manosalvas, D., Economon, T. D., Othmer, C., Jameson, A., "Computational Design of Drag Diminishing Active Flow Control Systems for Heavy Vehicles," AIAA Paper 2016-4082, 8th AIAA Flow Control Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2016.[ ]
  22. Zhou, Y., Albring, T., Gauger, N., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "An Efficient Unsteady Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Design Framework Using Discrete Adjoint," AIAA Paper 2016-3369, 17th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Washington, D.C., June 2016.
  23. Variyar, A., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Multifidelity Conceptual Design and Optimization of Strut-Braced Wing Aircraft using Physics-Based Methods," AIAA Paper 2016-2000, 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2016. [ ]
  24. Sanchez, R., Palacios, R., Economon, T. D., Kline, H., Alonso, J. J., Palacios, F., "Towards a Fluid­Structure Interaction Solver for Problems with Large Deformations Within the Open-Source SU2 Suite," AIAA Paper 2016-0205, 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, San Diego, CA, January 2016. [ ]
  25. Kline, H., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Multi-Objective Optimization of a Hypersonic Inlet Using Generalized Outflow Boundary Conditions in the Continuous Adjoint Method," AIAA Paper 2016-0912, 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2016.[ ]
  26. Bansal, G., et al., "Accelerating Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes on Multi-/Many-Core Intel Platforms," 27th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2015. [ ]
  27. Zhou, Y., Albring, T., Gauger, N., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Alonso, J. J., "A Discrete Adjoint Framework for Unsteady Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Optimization," AIAA Paper 2015-3355, 16th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Dallas, TX, June, 2015. [ ]
  28. Vitale, S., Gori, G., Pini, M., Guardone, A., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., and Colonna, P., "Extension of the SU2 open source CFD code to the simulation of turbulent flows of fluids modelled with complex thermophysical laws," AIAA Paper 2015-2760, 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June 2015. [ ]
  29. Lukaczyk, T., Wendorff, A., Colonno, M., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., Orra, T., and Ilario da Silve, C. R., "SUAVE: An Open-Source Environment for Multi-Fidelity Conceptual Vehicle Design," AIAA Paper 2015-3087, 16th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Dallas, TX, June, 2015. [ ]
  30. Manosalvas, D., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Jameson, A., "Techniques for the Design of Active Flow Control Systems in Heavy Vehicles," AIAA Paper 2015-3312, 33rd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June, 2015. [ ]
  31. Kline, H., Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Alonso, J. J., "Adjoint-Based Optimization of a Hypersonic Inlet," AIAA Paper 2015-3060, 22nd AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Dallas, TX, June 2015. [ ]
  32. Economon, T. D. , Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., Bansal, G., Mudigere, D., Deshpande, A., Heinecke, A., Smelyanskiy, M., "Towards High-Performance Optimizations of the Unstructured Open-Source SU2 Suite," AIAA Paper 2015-1949, AIAA Infotech at Aerospace, AIAA SciTech, Kissimmee, FL, January, 2015. [ ]
  33. Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Wendorff, A., Alonso, J. J., "Large-scale aircraft design using SU2," AIAA Paper 2015-1946, 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech, Kissimmee, FL, January, 2015. [ ]
  34. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "An Unsteady Continuous Adjoint Approach for Aerodynamic Design on Dynamic Meshes," AIAA Paper 2014-2300, 15th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, 2014. [ ]
  35. Manosalvas, D., Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., and Jameson, A., "Finding Computationally Inexpensive Methods to Model the Flow Past Heavy Vehicles and the Design of Active Flow Control Systems for Drag Reduction", AIAA 2014-2404, 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, 2014. [ ]
  36. M. Lopez, A. Sheshadri, K. Asthana J. Bull, J. Crabill, T. Economon, D. Manosalvas, J. Romero, J. Watkins, D. Williams, F. Palacios, and A. Jameson, " Verification and Validation of HiFiLES: a High-Order Navier-Stokes unstructured solver on multi-GPU platforms," AIAA Paper 2014-3168, 32nd AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, AIAA Aviation, Atlanta, GA, June, 2014. [ ]
  37. Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Aranake, A. C., Copeland, S. R., Lonkar, A. K., Lukaczyk, T. W., Manosalvas, D. E., Naik, K. R., Padron, A. S., Tracey, B., Variyar, A., and Alonso, J. J., "Stanford University Unstructured (SU2): Open-source analysis and design technology for turbulent flows," AIAA Paper 2014-0243, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2014: 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, National Harbor, MD, January 13-17, 2014. [ ]
  38. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "A Viscous Continuous Adjoint Approach for the Design of Rotating Engineering Applications," AIAA Paper 2013-2580, 21st AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, 2013. [ ]
  39. Colonno, M. R., Palacios, F., Economon, T. D., Lonkar, A. K., Alonso, J. J., "An Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Methodology for Fairing Systems," AIAA Paper 2013-2649, 31st AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, June 24-27, 2013. [ ]
  40. Palacios, F., Colonno, M. R., Aranake, A. C., Campos, A., Copeland, S. R., Economon, T. D., Lonkar, A. K., Lukaczyk, T. W., Taylor, T. W. R., Alonso, J. J., "Stanford University Unstructured (SU2): An open-source integrated computational environment for multi-physics simulation and design," AIAA Paper 2013-0287, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Grapevine, Texas, January 7-10, 2013. [ ]
  41. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "Unsteady Aerodynamic Design on Unstructured Meshes with Sliding Interfaces," AIAA Paper 2013-0632, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Grapevine, Texas, January 7-10, 2013. [ ]
  42. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "A Coupled-Adjoint Method for Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Optimization," AIAA Paper 2012-5598, 12th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference and 14th AIAA/ISSM Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, September, 2012. [ ]
  43. Economon, T. D., Palacios, F., Alonso, J. J., "Optimal Shape Design for Open Rotor Blades," AIAA Paper 2012-3018, 30th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June, 2012. [ ]
  44. Economon, T. D., Copeland, S. R., Alonso, J. J., Zeinali, M., Rutherford, D., "Design and Optimization of Future Aircraft for Assessing the Fuel Burn Trends of Commercial Aviation," AIAA Paper 2011-0267, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January, 2011. [ ]
  45. Morris, S., Stephens, D., Economon, T. D., Blake, W., "Interior Duct Wall Pressure Downstream of a Low-Speed Rotor," AIAA Paper 2008-2893, 14th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, May, 2008. [ ]
  46. Economon, T. D., "Effects of Wake Vortices on Commercial Aircraft," AIAA Paper 2008-1428, 46th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, Nevada, January, 2008. [ ]

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