Operating rotorcraft in the thin Martian atmosphere presents unique aerodynamic and flight dynamics challenges—first addressed during NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission in 2021. This seminar reviews these challenges for both current and future Mars rotorcraft. Topics include the characteristics of the Martian aerodynamic regime, Earth-based testing approaches, and Ingenuity’s flight dynamics validation on Mars. Future rotorcraft concepts will be significantly larger and more complex than Ingenuity’s coaxial design. Multi-rotor configurations introduce additional modeling difficulties, particularly in accurately capturing rotor wake interactions without resorting to computationally expensive blade-resolved CFD. To address this, the seminar will also discuss the application of the Viscous Vortex Particle Method (VVPM) as a mid-fidelity tool for simulating rotor wakes in Mars rotorcraft. Speaker(s): Tove Agren, Tove Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/536989

Abstract: Semiconductor Tool maintenance is a complex task due to process complexity, process integration challenges, and customer requirements. Historically, maintenance strategies have been reactive due to these complexities. Applied Materials has been focused on moving from a generally reactive method of reacting to tool issues to prescriptive methods of maintaining process equipment. This migration is through a combination of advanced anomaly detection techniques which provide low false positives, methods of translating fail modes into Reactive Useful Life estimates and ultimately prescribing solutions to issues in advance using Generative Artificial Intelligence. This discussion will cover some of the challenges and solutions to this framework. Speaker(s): Mike, Agenda: 6:00 - 6:30 - Networking and light dinner (for in person attendees) 6:30 - 7:30 - Talk and Q & A 7:30 - 8:00 - Wrap up and Networking Room: SCDI 4010, Bldg: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506966

[] Speaker(s): Noah Room: 112, Bldg: Heafey, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California, United States, 95053