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Aerospace, Volume 10, Issue 4

April 2023 - 65 articles

Cover Story: Lighter-than-air vehicles are very interesting flying platforms which merge the high endurance of winged aircraft with the hovering ability and maneuverability of rotorcraft. A major shortcoming of airships comes with their envelope, often displays complex aerodynamic behavior, making flights disturbance-prone and hard to control. With the ambition to reduce complexity and weight by installing fewer components onboard, while simultaneously obtaining satisfying control and guidance performances, a purely thrust-based configuration with no thrust vectoring is studied in this work. Control for stabilization and guidance is applied to a candidate four-thruster configuration, which is designed by following an energy-optimal approach. Results are then checked with respect to a standard aerodynamic-controlled configuration, showing excellent results in a high-fidelity simulation environment. View this paper
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Articles (65)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,606 Views
22 Pages

Consumable-free electron emitters are presently not feasible for autonomous tether-based deorbit devices such as E.T.PACK due to their power requirement. The bare-photovoltaic-tether (BPT) concept combines the bare tether electron collection with a t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,961 Views
30 Pages

The very large eddy simulation (VLES) method was investigated for supersonic reacting flows in the present work. The advantages and characteristics of the VLES model and the widely used improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) method were re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,466 Views
17 Pages

When it comes to achieving sustainability and circular economy objectives, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools can be of aid in supporting decision-makers to reach a satisfying solution, especially when conflicting criteria are present. In a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,713 Views
44 Pages

An important and challenging question for airport operators is the management of airport capacity and demand. Airport capacity depends on the available infrastructure, external factors, and operating procedures. Investments in Air Traffic Management...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,562 Views
30 Pages

The current study provides a thorough analysis and evaluation of fixed-wing UAV correlations with respect to NATO classification, region of production, entry-into-service (EIS) date and other operational specifications. A set of 202 existing fixed-wi...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,015 Views
14 Pages

The aerospace industry faces challenges in managing inventory effectively due to long product life cycles and unpredictable demand. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a promising technology that enables the on-demand production of spare parts, potentiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,255 Views
23 Pages

To improve the performance of intercepting a target with different maneuvering modes and changing the mode suddenly during the interception, a new adaptive control algorithm for the IGC (Integrated Guidance and Control) system is proposed, using the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,919 Views
19 Pages

Attrition Risk and Aircraft Suitability Prediction in U.S. Navy Pilot Training Using Machine Learning

  • Jubilee Prasad-Rao,
  • Olivia J. Pinon Fischer,
  • Neil C. Rowe,
  • Jesse R. Williams,
  • Tejas G. Puranik,
  • Dimitri N. Mavris,
  • Michael W. Natali,
  • Mitchell J. Tindall and
  • Beth W. Atkinson

The cost to train a basic qualified U.S. Navy fighter aircraft pilot is nearly USD 10 M. The training includes primary, intermediate, and advanced stages, with the advanced stage involving extensive flight training, and, thus, is very expensive as a...

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  • Open Access
3,075 Views
20 Pages

This paper addresses the possibility of reconstructing motion relative to the center of mass of a low Earth orbit (LEO) nanosatellite of the CubeSat 3U standard using satellite position measurements (Two-Line Element Set (TLE)). This kind of task nee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,353 Views
23 Pages

In this study, we present our improved RANS results of the missile aerodynamic flow computation involving leading edge vortex separation. We have used our in-house tailored version of the open source finite volume solver FlowPsi. An ongoing study in...

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