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Aerospace, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2024 - 67 articles

Cover Story: The request for faster and greener civil aviation is urging the worldwide scientific community and aerospace industry to develop a new generation of supersonic aircraft. A key aspect is the aerodynamic efficiency and its impact on the real mission. This paper discloses increasing-fidelity aerodynamic modeling to improve the conceptual design of high-speed vehicles. The methodology foresees the development of aerodynamic aero-databases using incremental steps, from simplified methods to very reliable data based on high-fidelity CFD simulations. The multi-fidelity approach supports the aircraft design process at different stages of its design cycle. At each step, a detailed mission analysis is performed, including stability, trimability, and maneuverability analyses. View this paper
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Articles (67)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,355 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2024

The electric seaplane, designed for take-off and landing directly on water, incorporates additional structures such as floats to meet operational requirements. Consequently, during the take-off taxiing phase, it encounters significantly higher aerody...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,816 Views
41 Pages

Online Deterministic 3D Trajectory Generation for Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

  • Zoe Mbikayi,
  • Agnes Steinert,
  • Dominik Heimsch,
  • Moritz Speckmaier,
  • Philippe Rudolph,
  • Hugh Liu and
  • Florian Holzapfel

15 February 2024

The use of non-piloted eVTOL aircraft in non-segregated airspace requires reliable and deterministic automatic flight guidance systems for the aircraft to remain predictable to all the users of the airspace and maintain a high level of safety. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,992 Views
24 Pages

15 February 2024

Airborne speech enhancement is always a major challenge for the security of airborne systems. Recently, multi-objective learning technology has become one of the mainstream methods of monaural speech enhancement. In this paper, we propose a novel mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,603 Views
24 Pages

Trajectory Predictor and Conflict Detection Figures of Merit for a Performance-Based Adaptive Air Traffic Monitoring System

  • Chen Xia,
  • Christian Eduardo Verdonk Gallego,
  • Adrián Fabio Bracero,
  • Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador and
  • Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés

15 February 2024

This paper investigates the impact of trajectory predictor performance on the encounter probability generated by an adaptive conflict detection tool and examines the flexibility of the tool dependent on its adjustable thresholds, using historical rad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,564 Views
28 Pages

14 February 2024

Fuel burn during the actual route flown is an important indicator of aircraft operational efficiency. This study aims to assess and systematically evaluate the method for fuel consumed during flights using data from the automatic dependent surveillan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,366 Views
23 Pages

Autonomous and Earth-Independent Orbit Determination for a Lunar Navigation Satellite System

  • Joshua J. R. Critchley-Marrows,
  • Xiaofeng Wu,
  • Yosuke Kawabata and
  • Shinichi Nakasuka

14 February 2024

In recent years, the number of expected missions to the Moon has increased significantly. With limited terrestrial-based infrastructure to support this number of missions, as well as restricted visibility over intended mission areas, there is a need...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,887 Views
12 Pages

14 February 2024

Ice accumulation on airfoils and engines seriously endangers fight safety. The design of anti-icing/de-icing systems calls for an accurate measurement of the adhesion strength between ice and substrates. In this research, a test bench for adhesion st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,369 Views
15 Pages

Characterization of a Solar Sail Membrane for Abaqus-Based Simulations

  • Luisa Boni,
  • Marco Bassetto and
  • Alessandro A. Quarta

14 February 2024

Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,738 Views
26 Pages

13 February 2024

The electric urban air mobility sector has gained significant attraction in public debates, particularly with the proliferation of announcements demonstrating new aerial vehicles and the infrastructure that goes with them. In this context, the develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,020 Views
24 Pages

Robust Approximate Optimal Trajectory Tracking Control for Quadrotors

  • Rong Li,
  • Zhengliang Yang,
  • Gaowei Yan,
  • Long Jian,
  • Guoqiang Li and
  • Zhiqiang Li

13 February 2024

This paper uses the adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) method to achieve optimal trajectory tracking control for quadrotors. Relying on an established mathematical model of a quadrotor, the approximate optimal trajectory tracking control, which consi...

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