Francisco Capristan

Francisco Capristan


Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Durand Building
Stanford, CA 94305

Background

Ph.D. Candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2011 - present

M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University 2011

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology 2009

Research Interests

  • Safety assessment of launch and re-entry systems

  • Multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization of launch vehicles

  • Space vehicle trajectory optimization

  • Rapid hypersonic heat transfer prediction methods

Publications

Haibei Jiang, Luis Rodriguez, Scott Bell, David Kortenkamp, Francisco Capristan, "Prediction of Reliability and Cost for Environmental Control and Life Support Systems," AIAA Space Conference, 2008.
Haibei Jiang, Luis Rodriguez, Scott Bell, David Kortenkamp, Francisco Capristan, "Prediction of Reliability of Environmental Control and Life Support Systems," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2011.