Alexander Vickery

<avickery@iastate.edu>

Blog, projects, essays, etc.

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My resume

Selected Works

Media

Interview with Florence Pouya – from the Afghanistan Girls' Robotics Team and 2021 Evacuee
Nuclear Device Video Essay

Publications

Hulscher, N., Vickery, A., et al., 2024. Resolution of Refractory COVID-19 Vaccine-Induced Myopericarditis with Adjunctive Rapamycin. Medical Research Archives. 12(11). DOI: 10.18103/mra.v12i11.6099

Gallery

X-37B model, for an aerospace class. This might look (and was) relatively simple, but I tried to really focus on appropriate and masterful techniques for specifying the geometry. Just look at that lofting! This is, incidentally, how actual aircraft are designed. A smooth geometry is especially important for an orbital glider like the X-37B (via aerothermal effects), as the shock distance is inversely proportional to local curvature (Cf. how the space shuttle leading edges were the hottest part of the TPS)

Rocket engine cutaway

Rocket engine, figure

Engine at the Spring MMXXV Engineering Student Project Showcase engine at the exhibition!

Ballistic basis vectors for what IBT is developing. I cannot write much publicly about this because of trade secrets, but it is very, very interesting what we are finding. What I can say in general is that prior assumptions about limits when aiming things will not apply in the very near future test