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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
6 Citations
2,859 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2024

This research introduces the Enhanced Scale-Aware efficient Transformer (ESAE-Transformer), a novel and advanced model dedicated to predicting Exhaust Gas Temperature (EGT). The ESAE-Transformer merges the Multi-Head ProbSparse Attention mechanism wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,032 Views
28 Pages

5 February 2024

The intent of this work was to investigate the feasibility of developing machine learning models for calculating values of airplane configuration design variables when provided time-series, mission-informed performance data. Shallow artificial neural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,682 Views
15 Pages

4 February 2024

The increasing complexity of the space flight program and the increase in the duration of missions require an improvement in psychological monitoring tools for astronauts in orbit. This article summarizes the experience of using quantitative content...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,824 Views
23 Pages

4 February 2024

CANYVAL-C is a formation-flying mission that demonstrates a coronagraph utilizing two CubeSats. The coronagraph is a space telescope that blocks sunlight to examine the overcast regions around the sun. It is composed of optical and occult segments. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,316 Views
18 Pages

Shape Morphing of 4D-Printed Polylactic Acid Structures under Thermal Stimuli: An Experimental and Finite Element Analysis

  • Grigorios Kostopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Stamoulis,
  • Vaios Lappas and
  • Stelios K. Georgantzinos

3 February 2024

This study explores the shape-morphing behavior of 4D-printed structures made from Polylactic Acid (PLA), a prominent bio-sourced shape-memory polymer. Focusing on the response of these structures to thermal stimuli, this research investigates how va...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,794 Views
26 Pages

Design and Flight Test of a Tube-Launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  • Michael Finigian,
  • Peter Apostolos Kavounas,
  • Ian Ho,
  • Conor Cian Smith,
  • Adam Witusik,
  • Andrew Hopwood,
  • Camron Avent,
  • Brandon Ragasa and
  • Brian Roth

3 February 2024

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have already proven valuable for intelligence, search, and reconnaissance missions; however, their integration into manned aircraft to augment existing capabilities is still an emerging field. This paper describes the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,372 Views
49 Pages

Methods, Standards and Components for Wireless Communications and Power Transfer Aimed at Intra-Vehicular Applications of Launchers

  • Francesco Fusco,
  • Vittorio Ugo Castrillo,
  • Hernan Maximiliano Roque Giannetta,
  • Marta Albano and
  • Enrico Cavallini

3 February 2024

In the world of space systems and launchers in particular, there is always a strong demand for the reduction of the weight of all components/subsystems that are not related to the payload and simplification of the integration phase. A possible soluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,380 Views
22 Pages

2 February 2024

The aeroelastic response of lightweight low-speed aircrafts with slender wings under extreme flow turbulence intensity is not well understood. Experiments on a commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a 3 m wingspan and aspect ratio of 13.6 were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,389 Views
25 Pages

Vibration Qualification Campaign on Main Landing Gear System for High-Speed Compound Helicopter

  • Antonio Chiariello,
  • Carmine Carandente Tartaglia,
  • Maurizio Arena,
  • Vincenzo Quaranta,
  • Giovanni Bruno,
  • Marika Belardo and
  • Martina Castaldo

1 February 2024

Vibrations in helicopters have strong implications for their performance and safety, leading to the increased fatigue of components and reduced operational efficiency. As helicopters are designed to land on several types of surfaces, the landing gear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,240 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2024

In this paper, we investigate flyby trajectories combining powered gravity assist (PGA) with aerogravity assist (AGA) in the planar elliptic restricted three-body problem (PERTBP). The patched flyby trajectory is divided into three portions: the PGA,...

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