Dr Albert S.J. van Heerden

  • Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering (Autonomous Systems & Connectivity)

email: Stevan.vanHeerden@glasgow.ac.uk

James Watt North Building, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8LU

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095

Biography

I am an aeronautical engineer and lecturer in Aerospace Engineering in the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. Before my current appointment, I was a research fellow in the Rolls‑Royce University Technology Centre and Centres for Aeronautics and Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering at Cranfield University.

My main academic and professional interests revolve around the conceptual design of sustainable civil transport aircraft and related systems. During my career thus far, I have worked closely with major UK and European aerospace companies to identify and advance holistic, system-level solutions to the biggest technical impediments facing the commercial aviation industry today. More information on my work is provided under the 'Research Interests' section below.

I have a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Cranfield University, an MS in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology (where I was Fulbright scholar), and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria. I also have several years of experience in industry, working in aerodynamics and flight control.

Research interests

Although highly interdisciplinary, my research is unified under three themes:

  • Conceptual aircraft design
  • Development, analysis, and optimisation of airframe and propulsion systems
  • Technical and economic assessment of novel efficiency-enhancing technologies and subsystems at aircraft level.

The overarching goal is to significantly advance and accelerate the development of sustainable aerospace solutions. I employ both deterministic and non‑deterministic design methods, as well as physics‑based muti-domain systems modelling techniques. A unique characteristic of my work is the development of methods to aid aircraft manufacturers in identifying aircraft family designs that would be ‘evolvable’ far beyond the initial entry-into-service date. The platform applications of my research cover traditional civil transport aircraft, as well as electric and hydrogen-powered aircraft.

Publications

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2024

El Fassi, Soufiane, Chen, Xin, Riaz, Atif, Guenov, Marin D., van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Jimeno Altelarrea, Sergio (2024) Managing assumption-driven design change via margin allocation and trade-offs. Journal of Engineering Design, 35(10), pp. 1258-1291. (doi: 10.1080/09544828.2023.2259741)

2023

van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Ippedico, Salvatore, Rajendran, David John, Anselmi-Palma, Eduardo, Roumeliotis, Ioannis, Pachidis, Vassilios, Sharpe, Richard and Howarth, Nicholas (2023) Performance Analysis of an Engine-Mounted Compression System for Aircraft Environmental Control. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 26-30 Jun 2023, ISBN 9780791886939 (doi: 10.1115/GT2023-100761)

2022

van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Sasi, Sarath, Ghelani, Raj, Sanders, Drewan and Roumeliotis, Ioannis (2022) A Scalable Hydrogen Propulsion System for Civil Transport Aircraft. In: 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2022), Stockholm, Sweden, 04-09 Sep 2022, 0703.

Carpentier, Thibault, Zhang, Jinning, Van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Roumeliotis, Ioannis (2022) Performance and Economic Assessment of Mechanically Integrated Parallel Hybrid Aircraft. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 13-17 Jun 2022, GT2022-81939. ISBN 9780791886014 (doi: 10.1115/GT2022-81939)

Fu, Jingcheng, van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, David and Lawson, Craig (2022) A generic mission-level flight control surface EMA power consumption simulation tool. Aerospace, 9(6), 290. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace9060290)

van Heerden, A.S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, D.M., Jafari, S., Lawson, C.P., Nikolaidis, T. and Bosak, D. (2022) Aircraft thermal management: practices, technology, system architectures, future challenges, and opportunities. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 128, 100767. (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100767)

2021

Jafari, Soheil, Nikolaidis, Theoklis, van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Lawson, Craig P. and Bosak, David (2021) Physics-Based Thermal Model for Power Gearboxes in Geared Turbofan Engines. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 21-25 Sep 2020, GT2020-14637. ISBN 9780791884058 (doi: 10.1115/GT2020-14637)

Judt, David, Lawson, Craig and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2021) Rapid design of aircraft fuel quantity indication systems via multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 28(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.3233/ICA-200646)

2020

Guenov, Marin D., Riaz, Atif, Bile, Yogesh H., Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042 and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2020) Computational framework for interactive architecting of complex systems. Systems Engineering, 23(3), pp. 350-365. (doi: 10.1002/sys.21531)

Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042, Chen, Xin, Guenov, Marin D., Riaz, Atif and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2020) Interactive uncertainty allocation and tradeoff for early stage design of complex systems. AIAA Journal, 58(3), pp. 1356-1368. (doi: 10.2514/1.J058442)

van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, David M., Lawson, Craig P., Jafari, Soheil and Nikolaidis, Theoklis (2020) Framework for Integrated Dynamic Thermal Simulation of Future Civil Transport Aircraft. In: AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, Orlando, FL, USA, 6-10 Jan 2020, ISBN 9781624105951 (doi: 10.2514/6.2020-1942)

2019

van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, Marin D. and Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042 (2019) Evolvability and design reuse in civil jet transport aircraft. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 108, pp. 121-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2019.01.006)

van Heerden, A S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, D., Lawson, C. P. and Bosak, D. (2019) Effects of More Electric Systems on Fuel Tank Thermal Behaviour. In: MEA 2019 More Electric Aircraft, Toulouse, France, 06-07 Feb 2019,

2018

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, M. D., Molina-Cristóbal, A., Riaz, A. and Bile, Y. (2018) Combined Airframe and Subsystems Evolvability Exploration During Conceptual Design. In: 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2018), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 09-14 Sep 2018, pp. 9-14. ISBN 9783932182884

Guenov, Marin D., Chen, Xin, Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042, Riaz, Atif, van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Padulo, Mattia (2018) Margin allocation and tradeoff in complex systems design and optimization. AIAA Journal, 56(7), pp. 2887-2902. (doi: 10.2514/1.J056357)

Molina-Cristóbal, A., Chen, X., Guenov, M. D., Riaz, A. and van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2018) Interactive Uncertainty Allocation and Trade-off at Early-stage Aircraft Computational Design. In: 2018 AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, 8-12 Jan 2018, ISBN 9781624105296 (doi: 10.2514/6.2018-2170)

2016

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, M. D., Molina-Cristóbal, A. and Riaz, A. (2016) Enhancing the Exploration of Aircraft Changeability During Conceptual Design. In: 30th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2016), Daejeon, South Korea, 25-30 Sep 2016, pp. 25-30. ISBN 9783932182853

Guenov, M.D., Molina-Cristóbal, A., Voloshin, V., Riaz, A., van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Sharma, S., Cuiller, C. and Giese, T. (2016) Aircraft Systems Architecting - a Functional-Logical Domain Perspective. In: 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 13-17 Jun 2016, ISBN 9781624104404 (doi: 10.2514/6.2016-3143)

2011

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Lidbetter, R., Liebenberg, L., Mathews, E. H. and Meyer, J. P. (2011) Development of a motion platform for an educational flight simulator. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 39(4), pp. 306-322. (doi: 10.7227/IJMEE.39.4.4)

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Number of items: 19.

Articles

El Fassi, Soufiane, Chen, Xin, Riaz, Atif, Guenov, Marin D., van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Jimeno Altelarrea, Sergio (2024) Managing assumption-driven design change via margin allocation and trade-offs. Journal of Engineering Design, 35(10), pp. 1258-1291. (doi: 10.1080/09544828.2023.2259741)

Fu, Jingcheng, van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, David and Lawson, Craig (2022) A generic mission-level flight control surface EMA power consumption simulation tool. Aerospace, 9(6), 290. (doi: 10.3390/aerospace9060290)

van Heerden, A.S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, D.M., Jafari, S., Lawson, C.P., Nikolaidis, T. and Bosak, D. (2022) Aircraft thermal management: practices, technology, system architectures, future challenges, and opportunities. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 128, 100767. (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2021.100767)

Judt, David, Lawson, Craig and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2021) Rapid design of aircraft fuel quantity indication systems via multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 28(2), pp. 141-158. (doi: 10.3233/ICA-200646)

Guenov, Marin D., Riaz, Atif, Bile, Yogesh H., Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042 and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2020) Computational framework for interactive architecting of complex systems. Systems Engineering, 23(3), pp. 350-365. (doi: 10.1002/sys.21531)

Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042, Chen, Xin, Guenov, Marin D., Riaz, Atif and van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2020) Interactive uncertainty allocation and tradeoff for early stage design of complex systems. AIAA Journal, 58(3), pp. 1356-1368. (doi: 10.2514/1.J058442)

van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, Marin D. and Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042 (2019) Evolvability and design reuse in civil jet transport aircraft. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 108, pp. 121-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.paerosci.2019.01.006)

Guenov, Marin D., Chen, Xin, Molina-Cristobal, Arturo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-5042, Riaz, Atif, van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Padulo, Mattia (2018) Margin allocation and tradeoff in complex systems design and optimization. AIAA Journal, 56(7), pp. 2887-2902. (doi: 10.2514/1.J056357)

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Lidbetter, R., Liebenberg, L., Mathews, E. H. and Meyer, J. P. (2011) Development of a motion platform for an educational flight simulator. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 39(4), pp. 306-322. (doi: 10.7227/IJMEE.39.4.4)

Conference Proceedings

van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Ippedico, Salvatore, Rajendran, David John, Anselmi-Palma, Eduardo, Roumeliotis, Ioannis, Pachidis, Vassilios, Sharpe, Richard and Howarth, Nicholas (2023) Performance Analysis of an Engine-Mounted Compression System for Aircraft Environmental Control. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 26-30 Jun 2023, ISBN 9780791886939 (doi: 10.1115/GT2023-100761)

van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Sasi, Sarath, Ghelani, Raj, Sanders, Drewan and Roumeliotis, Ioannis (2022) A Scalable Hydrogen Propulsion System for Civil Transport Aircraft. In: 33rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2022), Stockholm, Sweden, 04-09 Sep 2022, 0703.

Carpentier, Thibault, Zhang, Jinning, Van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 and Roumeliotis, Ioannis (2022) Performance and Economic Assessment of Mechanically Integrated Parallel Hybrid Aircraft. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 13-17 Jun 2022, GT2022-81939. ISBN 9780791886014 (doi: 10.1115/GT2022-81939)

Jafari, Soheil, Nikolaidis, Theoklis, van Heerden, Albert S.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Lawson, Craig P. and Bosak, David (2021) Physics-Based Thermal Model for Power Gearboxes in Geared Turbofan Engines. In: ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, 21-25 Sep 2020, GT2020-14637. ISBN 9780791884058 (doi: 10.1115/GT2020-14637)

van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, David M., Lawson, Craig P., Jafari, Soheil and Nikolaidis, Theoklis (2020) Framework for Integrated Dynamic Thermal Simulation of Future Civil Transport Aircraft. In: AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, Orlando, FL, USA, 6-10 Jan 2020, ISBN 9781624105951 (doi: 10.2514/6.2020-1942)

van Heerden, A S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Judt, D., Lawson, C. P. and Bosak, D. (2019) Effects of More Electric Systems on Fuel Tank Thermal Behaviour. In: MEA 2019 More Electric Aircraft, Toulouse, France, 06-07 Feb 2019,

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, M. D., Molina-Cristóbal, A., Riaz, A. and Bile, Y. (2018) Combined Airframe and Subsystems Evolvability Exploration During Conceptual Design. In: 31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2018), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 09-14 Sep 2018, pp. 9-14. ISBN 9783932182884

Molina-Cristóbal, A., Chen, X., Guenov, M. D., Riaz, A. and van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095 (2018) Interactive Uncertainty Allocation and Trade-off at Early-stage Aircraft Computational Design. In: 2018 AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, 8-12 Jan 2018, ISBN 9781624105296 (doi: 10.2514/6.2018-2170)

van Heerden, A. S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Guenov, M. D., Molina-Cristóbal, A. and Riaz, A. (2016) Enhancing the Exploration of Aircraft Changeability During Conceptual Design. In: 30th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS 2016), Daejeon, South Korea, 25-30 Sep 2016, pp. 25-30. ISBN 9783932182853

Guenov, M.D., Molina-Cristóbal, A., Voloshin, V., Riaz, A., van Heerden, Albert S. J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6979-7095, Sharma, S., Cuiller, C. and Giese, T. (2016) Aircraft Systems Architecting - a Functional-Logical Domain Perspective. In: 16th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Washington, DC, USA, 13-17 Jun 2016, ISBN 9781624104404 (doi: 10.2514/6.2016-3143)

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Teaching

ENG2053: Thermodynamics 2

ENG3006: Aircraft Design 3

MEC2135: Fluid Mechanics (University of Glasgow Singapore)

Additional information

  • Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Academic Adviser for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
  • Academic Ambassador for the James Watt School of Engineering