Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 94 Issue 8

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Performance of a microjet using component map scaling

Kahraman Coban, Selcuk Ekici, Can Ozgur Colpan, Tahir Hikmet Karakoç

This paper aims to investigate the cycle performance of a small size turbojet engine used in unmanned aerial vehicles at 0–5,000 m altitude and 0–0.8 Mach flight speeds with real…

Mechanical aspects of mothership with sensing drones system

Aleksandra Pakuła, Grzegorz Muchla, Bartosz Załęcki, Michał Jakub Modzelewski, Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski

This 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 designing…

Simultaneous autonomous system and powerplant design for morphing quadrotors

Hüseyin Şahin, Oguz Kose, Tugrul Oktay

This study aims to optimize autonomous performance (i.e. both longitudinal and lateral) and endurance of the quadrotor type aerial vehicle simultaneously depending on the…

Vibration response analysis and hoop layout optimization of spatial pipeline under random excitation

Donghai Wang, Wei Sun, Zhihui Gao, Hui Li

In 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 system…

ACAS installation on unmanned aerial vehicles: effectiveness and safety issues

Lidija Tomić, Olja Čokorilo, Ljubiša Vasov, Branimir Stojiljković

The paper aims to investigate the compatibility of manned-aircraft airborne collision avoidance systems (ACAS) for use on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

Gas turbine system identification using a bilayer equilibrium manifold expansion model

Linhai Zhu, Liu Jinfu, Yujia Ma, Mingliang Bai, Weixing Zhou, Daren Yu

This 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 realized…

Investigation of wind effect on different quadrotors

Hamdi Ercan, Hamdi Ulucan, Muharrem Selim Can

Although windy weather conditions have a significant effect on the flight safety and stability of any aircraft, the fact that quadrotors are lighter than other aircraft makes them…

Influencing factors of polarization coefficient of hollow fiber membrane

Ruihua Zhang, Weihua Liu

The purpose of this study is to improve the performance of hollow fiber membrane and improve the separation efficiency.

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 scenarios…

Fractional order sliding mode control based on delayed output observer for unmanned aircraft system

Ashutosh Bist, Swati Sondhi

This paper aims to design the fractional order sliding mode controller for highly maneuverable remote piloted unmanned aircraft with time-varying delays.

Drone-based delivery: a concurrent heuristic approach using a genetic algorithm

Khin Thida San, Yoon Seok Chang

The purpose of this study is to solve NP-Hard drone routing problem for the last-mile distribution. This is suitable for the multi-drones parcel delivery for the various items…

Structural efficiency of block for aviation piston heavy fuel engine

Zhongjian Pan, Qinghua He, Jing Yang

High 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 design…

The effect of environmental pressure changes on the bond strength between zirconia ceramic and adhesive resin cement

Secil Ozkan Ata, Canan Akay, Nazim Ata

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the environmental pressure changes on the bond strength between zirconia ceramics and adhesive resin cement.

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 Farkhady

Flying 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 aerial…

Initial airworthiness requirements for aircraft electric propulsion

Melih Yildiz

The 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…

Determining aircraft maintenance times in civil aviation under the learning effect

Uğur Atici, Mehmet Burak Şenol

Scheduling of aircraft maintenance operations is a gap in the literature. Maintenance times should be determined close to the real-life to schedule aircraft maintenance operations…

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 Lundström

While computational methods are prevalent in aircraft conceptual design, recent advances in mechatronics and manufacturing are lowering the cost of practical experiments…

Non-singular fixed-time pose tracking control for spacecraft with dead-zone input

Yuxia Ji, Li Chen, Jun Zhang, Dexin Zhang, Xiaowei Shao

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pose control of rigid spacecraft subject to dead-zone input, unknown external disturbance and parametric uncertainty in space…

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Analysis of thermal stability and characterization of paraffin-blended hybrid fuels

Saravanan G., Shanmugam S., A.R. Veerappan

The 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.

Physics informed neural networks for triple deck

Abderrahmane Belkallouche, Tahar Rezoug, Laurent Dala, Kian Tan

This 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 roughness…

Numerical procedure for the simulation of an electro-thermal anti-icing system

Antonio Carozza, Francesco Petrosino, Giuseppe Mingione

This 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…

Environmental and enviroeconomic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on commercial flights

Mehmet Kadri Akyüz

The purpose of this study is to determine and compare the total and per passenger HC, CO, NOx and CO2 emissions from aircraft landing and takeoff (LTO) cycle before and during the…

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ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb