{"id":710,"date":"2025-04-18T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/?page_id=710"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:57:19","slug":"surface-modifications-for-lifting-surfaces-and-greener-aviation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/research\/surface-modifications-for-lifting-surfaces-and-greener-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface modifications for lifting surfaces and greener aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Surface modifications for lifting surfaces and greener aviation<\/h1>\n<h2>&#8211; Exploring Surface Topography Manufacturing Techniques and Applicability for Future Green Aviation&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The team of Camli Badrya, Barbara Linke, both Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Electrical and Computer Engineering explores how to enable informed and accessible manipulation of aircraft lifting surface topography, including for wings, rotors, propellers, and empennage. The three initial tasks are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Characterize surface topography for aviation<\/li>\n<li>Explore surface features and manufacturing techniques<\/li>\n<li>Assess sensor technologies to use on or near the lifting surface for boundary layer status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-712\" src=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new.jpg\" alt=\"Diagram of a futuristic aircraft design highlighting surface modifications and bio-inspired aviation concepts. \" width=\"506\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2025\/04\/Lab-poster_new-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This project was kindly sponsored by the Next Level Research initiative of the College of Engineering at UC Davis in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h1>Surface modifications for lifting surfaces and greener aviation<\/h1>\n<h2>&#8211; Exploring Surface Topography Manufacturing Techniques and Applicability for Future Green Aviation&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>The team of Camli Badrya, Barbara Linke, both Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Electrical and Computer Engineering explores how to enable informed and accessible manipulation of aircraft lifting  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/research\/surface-modifications-for-lifting-surfaces-and-greener-aviation\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-710","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/710\/revisions\/780"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.engineering.ucdavis.edu\/master\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}