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LES predictions of confinement effect on swirling flow generated by single helical axial swirler
Mavuri Rajesh, Sivakumar R.For higher swirling flows (swirl > 0.5), flow confinement significantly impacts fluid flow, flame stability, flame length and heat transfer, especially when the…
Influencing factors of polarization coefficient of hollow fiber membrane
Ruihua Zhang, Weihua LiuThe purpose of this study is to improve the performance of hollow fiber membrane and improve the separation efficiency.
Enhanced X-ray pulsar navigation based on ranging information of a satellite
Li Zhang, Haiyan Fang, Weimin Bao, Haifeng Sun, Lirong Shen, Jianyu Su, Liang ZhaoX-ray pulsar navigation (XPNAV) is an autonomous celestial navigation technology for deep space missions. The error in the pulse time of arrival used in pulsar navigation…
A vision-aided fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller for autonomous landing of a nonlinear model helicopter on a moving marine platform
Farhad Pakro, Amir Ali NikkhahA vision-assisted fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller is presented in this research and implemented on a nonlinear helicopter model, which is about to land on a moving…
Multiple crack growth simulation for lap-joints based on three-dimensional finite element analysis
Jun Zou, Zhang Yuechao, Zhenyu FengThe fuselage riveted lap-joints are susceptible to multiple site damage (MSD) and should be considered in damage tolerance analysis. This paper aims to investigate the…
Potentials of prognostics and health management for polymer electrolyte fuel cells in aviation applications
Kathrin Ebner, Lily KoopsA reliable and safe operation of fuel cells (FCs) is imperative for their application in aviation, especially within the main powertrain. Moreover, performance and…
Artificial neural network based wing planform aerodynamic optimization
Burak Dam, Tolga Pirasaci, Mustafa KayaEnvironmental and operational restrictions increasingly drive modern aircraft design due to the growing impact of global warming on the ecology. Regulations and industrial…
The fuzzy PD control for combined energy and attitude control system
Sohaib Aslam, Yew-Chung Chak, Mujtaba Hussain Jaffery, Renuganth VaratharajooThe satellite pointing accuracy plays a crucial role in ensuring a successful satellite mission itself. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the attitude pointing…
The effects of flap extension time on the fuel burn of commercial aircraft
Ozlem SahinThis paper aims to investigate the effects of descent time spent with flaps extended on fuel burn (FB) and specific range for five different flight path angles (FPAs…
A preliminary framework for managing airport capacity and demand from an economic perspective
Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Luis Rubio-AndradaAirport capacity constraints lead to operational congestion and delays, which have become major threats to the aviation industry. They impose large costs on airlines and…
Analyzing well-to-pump emissions of electric and conventional jet fuel for aircraft propulsion
Melih Yildiz, Utku Kale, Andras NagyThe purpose of this study is to show the emissions related to electric consumption in electric aviation. Aviation, being one of the main transportation and economical…
CFD-based time-domain aeroelastic simulations of a twin-fudelage aircraft
Xinjiang Wang, Ziqiang Liu, Li Guo, Jinan Lv, Chen JiThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel method to study the flutter coupling mechanism of the twin-fuselage aircraft, which is becoming a popular transportation…
Semisupervised fault diagnosis of aeroengine based on denoising autoencoder and deep belief network
Defeng Lv, Huawei Wang, Changchang CheThe purpose of this study is to analyze the intelligent semisupervised fault diagnosis method of aeroengine.
Study on cooling inerting of an airborne fuel tank in flight
Guannan Liu, Liqun Wang, Hongming Wang, Long Huang, Hao Peng, Shiyu FengThis study aims to seek a new economic and environmental protection fuel tank inerting method.
Experimental and numerical analysis of humpback whale inspired tubercles on swept wings
Jeena Joseph, Sathyabhama A., Surya SridharWith aims to increase the aerodynamic efficiency of aerodynamic surfaces, study on flow control over these surfaces has gained importance. With the addition of flow…
Improved radial basis function artificial neural network and exact-time extended state observer based non-singular rapid terminal sliding-mode control of quadrotor system
Mati Ullah, Chunhui Zhao, Hamid MaqsoodThe purpose of this paper is to design a hybrid robust tracking controller based on an improved radial basis function artificial neural network (IRBFANN) and a novel…
Effect of turbulence intensity on aerodynamic characteristics of extended trailing edge airfoil
E. Livya, S. Nadaraja PillaiThis paper aims to study the extended trailing edge airfoil for a range of angle of attack at different intensities of turbulence.
Lip thickness effect on high bypass co-flowing jet mixing
Naren Shankar R., Ganesan V.G.The purpose of this study is to analyse numerically and experimentally the effects of lip thickness (LT) and bypass ratio on co-flowing nozzle under subsonic and correctly…
Numerical procedure for the simulation of an electro-thermal anti-icing system
Antonio Carozza, Francesco Petrosino, Giuseppe MingioneThis study aims to couple two codes, one able to perform icing simulations and another one capable to simulate the performance of an electrothermal anti-icing system in an…
Enabling SAT single pilot operations: tactical separation system design advancements in the COAST project
Vittorio Di Vito, Giulia Torrano, Giovanni Cerasuolo, Michele FerrucciThis paper aims to describe the advancements of the activities that have been carried out, in the Cost-Optimized Avionics SysTem (COAST) project, to complete the design…
Fuzzy Bayesian based bow-tie risk assessment of runway overrun: a method for airline flight operations
Caner Acarbay, Emre KiyakThe purpose of this paper is to improve risk assessment processes in airline flight operations by introducing a dynamic risk assessment method.
Fast vibro-acoustic simulation methods of satellite components
Jie Zhang, Weihua Xie, Yakun Wang, Jiang Zhou, Jiacong YinThis paper aims to fast predict vibration responses of specific locations in the satellite subject to acoustic environment. It proposes a set of vibro-acoustic simulation…
Numerical study of the yaw control of flapless aircraft
Ling-Xiao Li, He-Yong Xu, Zhi-Jie Fu, Zeng-Chun HuangThe purpose of this paper is to study the yaw control of the flapless aircraft and investigate the equivalent control effect (ECE) and the power consumption of the…
Fault detection based on extended state observer and interval observer for UAVs
Lijia Cao, Xu Yang, Guoqing Wang, Yang Liu, Yu HuThe purpose of this paper is to present an actuator fault detection method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on interval observer and extended state observer.
Cluster selection for load balancing in flying ad hoc networks using an optimal low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy based on optimization approach
Seyed Salar Sefati, Simona Halunga, Roya Zareh FarkhadyFlying ad hoc networks (FANETs) have a major effect in various areas such as civil projects and smart cities. The facilities of installation and low cost of unmanned…
Impact of human factors in aircraft accident mitigation and aircraft maintenance training needs in post COVID-19 aviation
Karunakaran C.S., Ashok Babu J.The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of human factor training in aircraft maintenance accident mitigation and aircraft safety in post COVID-19 aviation…
Development and validation of the multicopter modelling code: a physics-based tool for multicopter analysis
David Kofi Oppong, Evans Obu, Timothy Asare, God'sable Sitsofe Koku AidamThis study aims to present details of the development and validation of the multicopter modelling code (MMC), a tool for the analysis of small-scale multicopters based on…
Aerodynamic study of low Reynolds number airfoil and mini-unmanned aerial vehicle in simulated rain environment
Somashekar V., Immanuel Selwynraj A.Rainfall is one of the main atmospheric conditions that significantly affect the aerodynamic performance of the low Reynolds number flights. In this paper, the adverse…
Performance analysis of electrical flight control actuation system in a commercial transport aircraft
Hamdi Ercan, Mustafa AkınIn more than 100 years of aviation, significant progress has been made in flight control systems. The aircrafts that have entered service for the past ten years tend…
Gas turbine system identification using a bilayer equilibrium manifold expansion model
Linhai Zhu, Liu Jinfu, Yujia Ma, Mingliang Bai, Weixing Zhou, Daren YuThis paper aims to establish a multi-input equilibrium manifold expansion (EME) model for gas turbine (GT). It proposes that the extension of model input dimension is…
Vibration response analysis and hoop layout optimization of spatial pipeline under random excitation
Donghai Wang, Wei Sun, Zhihui Gao, Hui LiIn many cases, the external pipelines of aero-engine are subjected to random excitation. The purpose of this paper is to reduce the vibration response of the pipeline…
Analysis of thermal stability and characterization of paraffin-blended hybrid fuels
Saravanan G., Shanmugam S., AR. VeerappanThe purpose of this study is to investigate the physical, chemical and thermal characteristics of paraffin-blended fuels to determine their suitability as fuel in hybrid rockets.
Mechanical aspects of mothership with sensing drones system
Aleksandra Pakuła, Grzegorz Muchla, Bartosz Załęcki, Michał Jakub Modzelewski, Tomasz Goetzendorf-GrabowskiThis paper aims to describe the mechanical aspects of unmanned Mothership Plane and Sensing Drones. The presented conceptual system shows the idea and possible way of…
Safety performance functions to predict separation minima infringements in en-route airspace
Raquel Delgado-Aguilera Jurado, Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador, María Zamarreño Suárez, Francisco Pérez Moreno, Christian Eduardo Verdonk Gallego, Rosa María Arnaldo ValdesThe purpose of this study is to establish a systematic framework to characterise the safety of air routes, in terms of separation minima infringements (SMIs) between…
Initial airworthiness requirements for aircraft electric propulsion
Melih YildizThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the electric propulsion use in civil aviation and propose a framework for certification of electric propulsion subsystems. Although…
Physics informed neural networks for triple deck
Abderrahmane Belkallouche, Tahar Rezoug, Laurent Dala, Kian TanThis paper aims to introduce physics-informed neural networks (PINN) applied to the two-dimensional steady-state laminar Navier–Stokes equations over a flat plate with…
ACAS installation on unmanned aerial vehicles: effectiveness and safety issues
Lidija Tomić, Olja Čokorilo, Ljubiša Vasov, Branimir StojiljkovićThe paper aims to investigate the compatibility of manned-aircraft airborne collision avoidance systems (ACAS) for use on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Structural efficiency of block for aviation piston heavy fuel engine
Zhongjian Pan, Qinghua He, Jing YangHigh reliability and high power-to-weight ratio are the technical difficulties in the development of aviation piston heavy fuel engines. This paper aims to provide a…
Simultaneous autonomous system and powerplant design for morphing quadrotors
Hüseyin Şahin, Oguz Kose, Tugrul OktayThis study aims to optimize autonomous performance (i.e. both longitudinal and lateral) and endurance of the quadrotor type aerial vehicle simultaneously depending on the…
Fractional order sliding mode control based on delayed output observer for unmanned aircraft system
Ashutosh Bist, Swati SondhiThis paper aims to design the fractional order sliding mode controller for highly maneuverable remote piloted unmanned aircraft with time-varying delays.
Estimation of lift characteristics of a subscale fighter using low-cost experimental methods
Leonardo Murilo Nepomuceno, Roberto Gil Annes da Silva, Alejandro Sobron, Petter Krus, David LundströmWhile computational methods are prevalent in aircraft conceptual design, recent advances in mechatronics and manufacturing are lowering the cost of practical experiments…