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Aerospace, Volume 8, Issue 9

September 2021 - 42 articles

Cover Story: Hybrid rockets are an attractive technology for the future of commercial transportation in space due to their inherent safety and relatively low development cost. This paper reports on the change in velocity capability of a subcategory of hybrid rocket-based in-space transportation vehicles referred to as “post-boost stages” or “kick motors”. The impact of oxidizer selection, envelope shape, O/F-shift, and nozzle throat erosion on change in velocity are examined in detail. Hydrogen-peroxide-based motors are found to be most suitable when space is limited but propellant system mass is not, while nitrous oxide-based motors are found to be most suitable in the opposite case. View this paper
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Articles (42)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,605 Views
21 Pages

A Gimballed Control Moment Gyroscope Cluster Design for Spacecraft Attitude Control

  • Charalampos Papakonstantinou,
  • Vaios Lappas and
  • Vassilis Kostopoulos

21 September 2021

This paper addresses the problem of singularity avoidance in a cluster of four Single-Gimbal Control Moment Gyroscopes (SGCMGs) in a pyramid configuration when used for the attitude control of a satellite by introducing a new gimballed control moment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,254 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2021

With the rapid development of on-orbit services and space situational awareness, there is an urgent demand for multisatellite flyby inspection (MSFI) that can obtain information about a large number of space targets with little fuel consumption in a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,589 Views
15 Pages

Experimental Validation for the Performance of MR Damper Aircraft Landing Gear

  • Bang-Hyun Jo,
  • Dae-Sung Jang,
  • Jai-Hyuk Hwang and
  • Yong-Hoon Choi

19 September 2021

The landing gear of an aircraft serves to mitigate the vibration and impact forces transmitted from the ground to the fuselage. This paper addresses magneto-rheological (MR) damper landing gear, which provides high shock absorption efficiency and exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,106 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2021

The cable-net structure of a giant active reflector is a structure with large deformations. The effective form analysis approach can help the active reflector to achieve high surface accuracy. In this paper, a new nonlinear numerical form analysis ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,123 Views
15 Pages

Description of a Eulerian–Lagrangian Approach for the Modeling of Cooling Water Droplets

  • Rúben Meireles,
  • Leandro Magalhães,
  • André Silva and
  • Jorge Barata

18 September 2021

The present paper describes a tool developed in-house for the modeling of free-falling water droplet cooling processes. A two-way coupling model is employed to account for the interactions between the droplets and the carrier fluid, following a Euler...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
13,736 Views
25 Pages

18 September 2021

The blade geometry design method is an important tool to design high performance axial compressors, expected to have large design space while limiting the quantity of design variables to a suitable level for usability. However, the large design space...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,761 Views
25 Pages

17 September 2021

The energy efficiency and flight endurance of small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs) can be improved through the implementation of autonomous soaring strategies. Biologically inspired flight techniques such as dynamic and thermal soaring offer signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,277 Views
15 Pages

Micro-Vortex Generators on Transonic Convex-Corner Flow

  • Kung-Ming Chung,
  • Kao-Chun Su and
  • Keh-Chin Chang

17 September 2021

A convex corner models the upper surface of a deflected flap and shock-induced boundary layer separation occurs at transonic speeds. This study uses micro-vortex generators (MVGs) for flow control. An array of MVGs (counter-rotating vane type, ramp t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,481 Views
13 Pages

16 September 2021

This work demonstrates the use of Latin Hypercube Sampling and Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in combination with a Radial Basis Function model to perform on vehicle prediction coupled fluid–thermal–structure. We regarded the Mach number, flight alt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,557 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2021

The aircraft trajectory clustering analysis in the terminal airspace is conducive to determining the representative route structure of the arrival and departure trajectory and extracting their typical patterns, which is important for air traffic mana...

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