1. How do non-linear aerodynamic effects such as flow separation and vortex shedding influence the stability and dynamic response of an aircraft?
2. How do the stability and control characteristics of an aircraft change at high angles of attack and during post-stall maneuvering?
3. How can robust control techniques be used to design control laws that maintain the stability and performance of an aircraft in the presence of modeling uncertainties and unmodeled dynamics?
4. How can modern optimization techniques be used to design aircraft configurations that exhibit desirable stability and control characteristics while satisfying other design constraints?
5. How can computational fluid dynamics simulations be used to accurately predict the stability and control characteristics of an aircraft, and how do these predictions compare with experimental wind tunnel and flight test data?