Stanford professor Charbel Farhat, Aeronautics and Astronautics, an expert in computational fluid and structural dynamics and fluid-structure interaction, worked with the Jet Propulsion Lab to develop computer simulations to help JPL improve their parachute designs to be used for future Mars rovers like the rover Curiousity which touched down on Mars in 2012. Future missions are likely to require larger payloads and require larger parachutes.