Hyeong-Seok Ko and Hyun-Ho Yang, from KAIST AE’s Smart Structures and Hardware Systems Lab (Advisor: Jae-Hung Han), achieved first place in the "2024 RecurDyn Simulation Competition" hosted by FunctionBay, Inc. Competing against 42 teams, they secured the Gold Award (1st) for the second consecutive year, following from last year.

Their presentation topic was "Integrated Simulation Program for Bird-Inspired Flapping-Wing Air Vehicles", in which they developed a fluid-structure interaction analysis program for ornithopters in forward flight by integrating RecurDyn's multi-flexible-body dynamics solver and the modified unsteady vortex lattice method.

RecurDyn is a comprehensive CAE dynamics analysis software that offers various functions such as control, fatigue analysis, and optimization, with multi-flexible-body dynamics at its core, spanning across different fields.