Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 93 Issue 4

Evolved auxiliary controller with applications to aerospace

Tim Chen, N. Kapronand, C.Y. Hsieh, J. Cy Chen

To guarantee the asymptotic stability of discrete-time nonlinear systems, this paper aims to propose an evolved bat algorithm fuzzy neural network (NN) controller algorithm.

Part 1: robust adaptive control of quadrotor with disturbance observer

Nigar Ahmed, Abid Raza, Rameez Khan

The aim of this paper is to design a nonlinear disturbance observer-based control (DOBC) method obtained by patching a control method developed using a robust adaptive technique…

Actuator model for spacecraft attitude control simulation

Chengxi Zhang, Jin Wu, Ran Sun, Mingjiang Wang, Dechao Ran

The purpose of this paper is to study the general actuator modeling in spacecraft attitude control systems.

Optimization of synthetic jet actuation by analytical modeling

Max Huber, Andreas Zienert, Perez Weigel, Martin Schüller, Hans-Reinhard Berger, Jörg Schuster, Thomas Otto

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and optimize synthetic jet actuators (SJAs) by means of a literature-known one-dimensional analytical model.

Numerical investigations on the hydrogen jet pressure variations in a strut based scramjet combustor

Jeyakumar Suppandipillai, Jayaraman Kandasamy, R. Sivakumar, Mehmet Karaca, Karthik K.

This paper aims to study the influences of hydrogen jet pressure on flow features of a strut-based injector in a scramjet combustor under-reacting cases are numerically…

A small UAV tracking algorithm based on AIMM-UKF

Zhiwen Hou, Fanliang Bu

The purpose of this study is to establish an effective tracking algorithm for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on interacting multiple model (IMM) to take timely…

Numerical investigation of an anti-icing method on airfoil based on the NSDBD plasma actuator

Junjie Niu, Weimin Sang, Feng Zhou, Dong Li

This paper aims to investigate the anti-icing performance of the nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge (NSDBD) plasma actuator.

Experimental and numerical prediction of lean blowout limits for micro gas turbine combustor

Kirubakaran V., David Bhatt

The lean blowout (LBO) limit of the combustor is one of the important performance parameters for any gas turbine combustor design. This study aims to predict the LBO limits of an…

Investigation of effect of abrasive water jet (AWJ) machining parameters on aramid fiber-reinforced polymer (AFRP) composite materials

Sıtkı Akıncıoğlu

The purpose of this study was to optimize the surface roughness (Ra), delamination damage at the hole entrance (FdT) and at the hole exit (FdB) and kerf angle (K) in the drilling…

Responsibly regulating the civilian unmanned aerial vehicle deployment in India and Japan

Anjan Chamuah, Rajbeer Singh

The purpose of the paper is to describe the evolving regulatory structures of the civilian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in India and Japan, not yet fully developed to regulate…

Robust adaptive preview control design for autonomous carrier landing of F/A-18 aircraft

Ajeet Kumar Bhatia, Jiang Ju, Zhen Ziyang, Nigar Ahmed, Avinash Rohra, Muhammad Waqar

The purpose of this paper is to design an innovative autonomous carrier landing system (ACLS) using novel robust adaptive preview control (RAPC) method, which can assure safe and…

Flow control method by applying flexible shells procedure in transonic flow

M.R. Saber, M.H. Djavareshkian

In the present research, the effect of the flexible shells method in unsteady viscous flow around airfoil has been studied. In the presented algorithm, due to the interaction of…

Multidisciplinary design and optimization of expendable launch vehicle for microsatellite missions

Qasim Zeeshan, Amer Farhan Rafique, Ali Kamran, Muhammad Ishaq Khan, Abdul Waheed

The capability to predict and evaluate various configurations’ performance during the conceptual design phase using multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization can…

Small aircraft detection using deep learning

Emre Kiyak, Gulay Unal

The paper aims to address the tracking algorithm based on deep learning and four deep learning tracking models developed. They compared with each other to prevent collision and to…

Passenger aircraft emissions analysis at Ordu-Giresun International Airport, Turkey in 2017

Ilkay Orhan

The purpose of this study is to present the pollutant gas produced by hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen oxides (NO_x) and the quantity of fuel burned from…

The effect of hull fineness ratio and fin parameters on the optimization of tethered aerostat

Khurrum Mahmood, Norilmi Amilia Ismail

This paper aims to optimize the mass of a tethered aerostat to achieve optimum hull volume, and fins to generate aerodynamic lift to reduce the blow-by.

An investigation of euro diesel-hydrogen dual-fuel combustion at different speeds in a small turbojet engine

Ismail Hakki Hakkı Akçay, Habib Gürbüz, Hüsameddin Akçay, Mustafa Aldemir

This study seeks the effect on static thrust, thrust specific energy consumption (TSEC) and exhaust emissions of euro diesel-hydrogen dual-fuel combustion in a small turbojet…

Effects of isentropic efficiency of turbomachinery components on entropy production for small turbojet engine

Hakan Aygün

Usage of gas turbine engines has increased by day due to rising demand for military and civil applications. This case results in investigating diverse topics related to energy…

Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for flight control systems using observer and fuzzy logic

Gulay Unal

Fault detection, isolation and reconfiguration of the flight control system is an important problem to obtain healthy flight. This paper aims to propose an integrated approach for…

A numerical solution to thermo‐mechanical behavior of temperature dependent rotating functionally graded annulus disks

Royal Madan, Shubhankar Bhowmick

The purpose of this study is to investigate Thermo-mechanical limit elastic speed analysis of functionally graded (FG) rotating disks with the temperature-dependent material…