Pioneering Research & Development for Next Generation Aeronautical Concepts
Thoth Engineering is an Irvine-based aerospace engineering practice led by Chief Scientist Dr. Haithem Taha, with over 20 years of combined team experience across research, teaching, and industry. Specializing in aeronautical product development and applied R&D, it delivers technical consulting, computational engineering analysis, and proprietary software tools - from flight control systems and CFD simulation to bio-inspired flapping-wing drones and autonomous aerial platforms.
Haithem TahaChief Scientist
Provides expert technical advice to help aeronautical project teams account for design robustness and certification considerations.
Computational simulation analyses supporting prototype validation, performance prediction, and cost-effective certification across aeronautical domains.
Conducts applied aeronautical R&D around technical studies and flight-system software concepts.
Offers training as part of Thoth's aeronautical engineering services portfolio.
Aerospace · Defense
Aerospace
A flapping-wing drone built on the discovery that natural body oscillations in insect flight confer passive stability through vibrational stabilization. The Quad Flapper translates this biological insight into a novel unmanned aerial platform capable of agile maneuvering with potential applications in surveillance and autonomous flight.
Aerospace
A proprietary CFD solver for low-speed incompressible flows covering aircraft near takeoff and landing, drones, wind turbines, and submarines. Based on the Principle of Minimum Pressure Gradient, it reformulates fluid mechanics as a convex quadratic programming problem, achieving speeds five times faster than leading solvers in this class.
Aerospace
A MATLAB-based software tool that predicts airplane dynamical characteristics - stability and control derivatives, natural frequencies, and damping coefficients across all three axes - from flight measurement data.
Aerospace
A MATLAB-based tool enabling simulation of complex aircraft maneuvers - from pull-up and vertical loop to barrel roll and crosswind landing - using an optimal control formulation rather than model-dependent inverse simulation, reducing pre-certification trial-and-error for engineering teams.