Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 88 Issue 1
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Coupling of static and dynamic fuselage design
Dominik B. Schwinn– The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for the evaluation of transport aircraft fuselages constructed in a semi-monocoque design.
Optimization of low-thrust transfers to libration point orbits
Weipeng Li, Hai HuangThe purpose of this paper is to develop a superconvergent trajectory optimization method for the design of low-thrust transfer trajectories from parking orbit to libration point…
Preliminary sizing correlations for the rear-end of transport aircraft
Cristina Cuerno-Rejado, Alejandro Sanchez-CarmonaThe purpose of this study of which this work is only the first part, is the development of conceptual design tools to perform an optimized design of the rear fuselage and tail…
Low emissions trapped vortex combustor
Yangbo Deng, Fengmin Su– The purpose of this paper is to study the combustion and emission characteristics of an improved trapped vortex combustor (TVC).
Minimal safe speed of the asymmetrically loaded combat airplane
Predrag Stojakovic, Bosko RasuoThe purpose of this paper is to present a method for determining the safe flight boundaries of the asymmetrically loaded airplane in the terminal flight phases. The method is…
A dynamical approach to space capturing procedure using flexible cables
Yue Zhang, Cheng Wei, Dong Pan, Yang Zhao– The purpose of this paper is to provide an accurate dynamic model for the flexible cable capture mechanism and to analyze the dynamic characteristics in the capturing process.
Military aircrafts’ classification based on their sound signature
Maria Barbarosou, Ioannis Paraskevas, Amr Ahmed– This paper aims to present a system framework for classifying different models of military aircrafts, which is based on the sound they produce.
A practical method for aerodynamic investigation of WIG
Mohammad Saeed Seif, Mohammad Tavakoli DakhrabadiThe purpose of this paper is to present a fast, economical and practical method for mathematical modeling of aerodynamic characteristics of rectangular wing in ground (WIG…
Aerodynamic characteristics of a wrap-around fin rocket
Guo Qing Zhang, S C.M Yu, J SchlüterThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the aerodynamics characteristics (especially the side force/moment and rolling characteristics), to analyze the impacts generated by…
Thermal buckling and vibration analysis of laminated composite curved shell panel
Pankaj V Katariya, Subrata Kumar PandaThe purpose of this paper is to develop a general mathematical model for laminated curved structure of different geometries using higher-order shear deformation theory to evaluate…
Pigeon inspired optimization approach to model prediction control for unmanned air vehicles
Rui Dou, Haibin DuanThe purpose of this paper is to propose a novel concept of model prediction control (MPC) parameter optimization method, which is based on pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO…
Justification of general procedure of optimizing algorithms under pure coning motion
Qian Li, Wei Gao, Jiubin TanThe purpose of this paper is to justify the algorithm optimization based on a consideration of its accuracy characteristics in a pure coning motion, which is widely used in…
Aircraft ice accretion prediction using neural network and wavelet packet transform
Shinan Chang, Mengyao Leng, Hongwei Wu, James ThompsonThe purpose of this paper is to present a new technique based on the combination of wavelet packet transform (WPT) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the ice…
Adaptive neural network based backstepping control design for MIMO nonlinear systems with actuator nonlinearities
Muhammad Usman Jamil, Waree Kongprawechnon, Muhammad Qamar RazaThe purpose of the proposed research methodology is to control the trajectory tracking of EDRM and also to cancel out the effect of no-smooth nonlinearities, which affect the…
A conservative sliding mesh coupling procedure for U-RANS flow simulations
Pier Luigi Vitagliano, Mauro Minervino, Domenico Quagliarella, Pietro Catalano– This paper aims to simulate unsteady flows with surfaces in relative motion using a multi-block structured flow solver.
Fuel efficient control strategy for constellation orbital deployment
Hongwei Yang, Yu Jiang, Hexi BaoyinThis paper aims to provide a new method to design a fuel efficient control strategy such as J2 perturbation for deploying a constellation into a specified configuration. The…
Active control design for an unmanned air vehicle with a morphing wing
Daochun Li, Shijun Guo, Tariq Osman Aburass, Daqing Yang, Jinwu XiangThe purpose of this study is to develop an active controller of both leading-edge (LE) and trailing-edge (TE) control surfaces for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with a composite…
Knowledge management in successful technology transfer (Case study: Iranian aerospace industries and knowledge-based centers)
Abbas Rafiei, Peyman Akhavan, Saeed HayatiThe present paper aims to identify factors and variables affecting designing and assimilating technology in knowledge-based centers and aerospace industries, to study their…
Robust filtering algorithm based on time-varying noise
Hui Shao, Zhi Xiong, Jianxin Xu, Bing Hua, Song HanThe federated filter created by Carlson has been widely used in multi-sensor integrated navigation. Compared with no-reset federated filter, the reset mode has greater…
Research of pre-estimating method on aircraft sudden fault
Zhongsheng Wang, Zhizhong Han, Limin LiThe purpose of this paper is to solve difficult estimation problem on aircraft sudden fault by proposing a new pre-estimating method according to the energy evolution degree of…
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