EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- B.S. with Honors in Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Georgia Tech Thank a Teacher Program Award
- Aviation Week Twenty20s
- Sigma Gamma Tau Mid-Atlantic Regional Award
- Maryland Governor's Volunteer Service Citation
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Guidance, navigation, and control of reentry vehicles
- Reentry flight dynamics
- Microscale thermoelasticity
- Hypersonic rarefied aerodynamics
- ENAE202/ENME202: Fundamentals of Computing
Doctorate and Masters Project
- Hart, K.A., “A Micromechanically-Informed Model of Thermal Spallation with Application to Propulsive Landing,” Ph.D. thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, Dec. 2021.
- Hart, K.A., “Analytic Aerodynamic and Solar Radiation Pressure Modeling of Resident Space Objects,” M.S. project report, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, May 2015.
Journal Articles
- Hart, K.A. and Rimoli, J.J., “A Computational Model for the Thermal Spallation of Crystalline Rocks,” Journal of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, vol. 56, pp. 8235-8254, 2023.
- Hart, K.A. and Rimoli, J.J., “MicroStructPy: A statistical microstructure mesh generator in Python,” SoftwareX, vol. 12, p. 100 595, 2020.
- Hart, K.A. and Rimoli, J.J., “Generation of statistically representative microstructures with direct grain geometry control,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 370, 2020.
- Groesbeck, D.S., Hart, K.A., and Gunter, B.C., “Simulated formation flight of nanosatellites using differential drag with high-fidelity rarefied aerodynamics,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 1175–1184, 2019.
- Hart, K.A., Simonis, K.R., Steinfeldt B.A., and Braun, R.D., “Analytic free-molecular aerodynamics for rapid propagation of resident space objects,” Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 27–36, 2017.
Conference Papers
- Groesbeck, D.S., Gunter, B.C., and Hart, K.A., “Simulated formation control maneuvers for the RANGE CubeSat mission,” in AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Stevenson, WA, 2017.
- Hart, K.A., Gunter, B.C., and Braun, R.D., “Aerodynamics of the RANGE nanosatellites from direct flowfield simulation,” in AIAA SPACE 2016, Long Beach, CA, 2016.
- Hart, K.A., Steinfeldt, B.A., and Braun, R.D., “Formulation and applications of a probabilistic Pareto chart,” in 56th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Kissimmee, FL, 2015.
- Hart, K.A., Simonis, K.R., Steinfeldt B.A., and Braun, R.D., “Analytical aerodynamic force and moment coefficients of axisymmetric objects in rarefied flow,” in AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Kissimmee, FL, 2015.
- Hart, K.A., Simonis, K.R., Dutta, S., Steinfeldt B.A., and Braun, R.D., “Analytically-derived aerodynamic force and moment coefficients of resident space objects in free-molecular flow,” in AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, National Harbor, MD, 2014.
- Hart, K.A., and Wereley, N.M., “Active camber control via pneumatic artificial muscles,” in AIAA Region I Student Conference, Laurel, MD, 2013.
Technical Reports
- Braun, R.D., Russell, R.P., Vittaldev, V., Hart, K.A., “Space Catalog Uncertainty Modeling Using High Fidelity Dynamics, Multi-complex Step Derivatives and GPUs,” Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, 2016, pp. 1–19. AFRL-RV-PS-TR-2016-1169.
- Hart, K.A and Bostroem, K. A., “Characterization of the STIS NUV MAMA vignetting by optical element,” Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, Tech. Rep. TIR 2014-01, 2014, pp. 1–19.