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Section Board for 'Aeronautics' (52)
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Interests: experimental plasma aerodynamics; weakly ionized plasma generation; flow actuation by electrical discharges; plasma-assisted combustion; diagnostics of low-temperature plasma; hypersonics; aerothermodynamics; high-speed combustion
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Interests: unmanned aircraft system; unmanned underwater vehicles; autonomous vehicles; integrated navigation systems; mems inertial sensors; data fusion; sense and avoid; collision avoidance; air traffic management; unmanned traffic management
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Interests: high-speed flow; particle-laden flow; flow separation; flow control; computational physics; higher-order flow solvers; discontinuous Galerkin methods
Interests: chemical propulsion, fluid dynamics
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Hybrid Rocket(Volume II)
Interests: aeroacoustics; magnetohydrodynamics; flight dynamics and performance; solar-terrestrial and stellar astrophysics; special functions and differintegration operators
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Aeroacoustics
Interests: fluid dynamics; turbine and compressor aerodynamics; convective heat transfer in turbomachinery; turbine cooling; design of small gas turbines for UAV/RPV applications; fluid dynamics testing of helicopter rotors
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Interests: high-speed aerodynamics; unsteady compressible flow; experimental methods; transonic/supersonic flow control; experiment/computation comparison
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Interests: aerodynamic configuration; turbulent flows and high-lift, highly agile configurations; unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelasticity; helicopter aerodynamics; rotor and propeller aerodynamics; membrane wings and fluid–structure interaction
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Interests: aerospace structures; composite structures; buckling and post-buckling; crashworthiness; damage progression in composites; fatigue
Interests: biological mechanical and aerospace engineering and science; biological flight and animal locomotion; bioinspired flapping wing aerial robots
Interests: autonomous systems; multi-agent & multi-resolution simulation; nonlinear control; operational analysis and flight dynamics & control
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Topical Collection in Aerospace: Unmanned Aerial Systems
Interests: composite materials/structures; probabilistic aspects of material fatigue; aeroelastic design
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Interests: morphing aircraft; aircraft design; adaptive/smart structures; aircraft structures; UAVs; acoustic fatigue
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Adaptive/Smart Structures and Multifunctional Materials 2016
Topical Collection in Aerospace: Adaptive/Smart Structures and Multifunctional Materials in Aerospace
2. NCSA Senior Academic Lead for Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 104 S. Wright Street, 316 TALBOT LAB., MC-236 Urbana, IL 61801-2935, USA
Interests: viscoelasticity; nonlinear aero-viscoelasticity; creep buckling; material property characterization; failure criteria; stability & control
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Interests: composite structures; multidisciplinary design optimization; aeroelasticity; flapping wing MAV; composite structural health monitoring
Interests: energy systems; propulsive systems; fluid machinery; applied fluid dynamics; combustion
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Active Flow Control Technologies for Energy and Propulsive Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Volume II: Combustion and Propulsion
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Microscale Combustion and Power Generation
Special Issue in Actuators: Prospects and Challenges for Practical Application of Plasma Actuators for Active Control of Flow
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Emerging Approaches for Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Use for Industrial and Propulsive Applications and Carbon Emissions Reduction
Interests: combustion; liquid atomization and spray; multiphase flow; heat and mass transfer
Interests: aerothermal analysis; turbomachinery; modeling and simulation; ground testing; measurement techniques; propulsion
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Secondary Air Systems in Gas Turbine Engines II
Interests: aeroelasticity; structural dynamics; system identification; nonlinear dynamics
Interests: surface coatings; high temperature materials for aerospace applications; tribology, mechanical behaviour of materials; aircraft structures; composites
Interests: aerodynamics; structures; aeroelasticity; model reduction; control
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Physics-based, High-Fidelity Computational modelling for Aerospace Application
Interests: aerodynamics; energy; turbulence; renewable energy; experimental fluid mechanics; convection; solar; pressure; wind; boundary layer; solar thermal; pressure transducers
Interests: computational fluid dynamics (methods and applications); aircraft aerodynamics design and optimization; turbo-machinery; industrial fluid mechanics; UAV system development
Interests: handling qualities; automatic control; flight control systems; aerospace guidance; astrodynamics
Interests: fluid dynamics; ultrasound; shock waves; medical technology; acoustics; cavitation; biomedical engineering; biotechnology; biophysics; bioelectrics; aerodynamics; turbomachinery; gas dynamics; optics; interferometry; measurement; electrics; bubble dynamics; pulsed Power; bioelectric energy sources; renewable energy
Interests: aeronautical materials and structures; mechanical behaviour of materials; structural integrity; damage mechanics; experimental fracture mechanics; fatigue of aircraft materials and structures; ageing aircraft; characterization and manufacturing processes of polymers, thermosetting and thermoplastic composites; nanocomposites and nanocrystalline alloys; multifunctional and self-healing materials
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Special Issue in Aerospace: 9th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space
Special Issue in Aerospace: 10th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space to the Satisfaction of the European Citizens
Special Issue in Metals: Selected Papers from ICEAF VI
Special Issue in Aerospace: 11th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space to the Satisfaction of the European Citizens
Interests: aerospace engineering; multiobjective optimization; computational fluid dynamics; experimental fluid dynamics and data assimilation
Interests: multiphysics; fluid structure interaction; computational modelling; composite materials; aerospace structures; aerospace business and management
Interests: multi-disciplinary design optimization; multi-disciplinary analysis; probabilistic design; aircraft design; propulsion design; rotorcraft; systems engineering; systems of systems and technology assessments
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Interests: wind tunnel testing; incompressible and compressible experimental aerodynamics; shock/vortex interaction; shock waves; compressible vortex flow
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Interests: turbulence; aeroacoustics; computational fluid dynamics
Interests: aircraft dynamics and control; nonlinear flight dynamics; nonlinear ground/landing gear dynamics; bifurcation analysis; dynamic wind tunnel testing
School of Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland
Interests: metal plasticity; low cycle fatigue; constitutive modelling; metal additive manufacturing; airworthiness
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Interests: multidisciplinary design optimization of complex engineering systems; simulation-based engineering design; uncertainty quantification; optimization theory and algorithms; decomposition and coordination methods; design validation; platform-based product families; systems of systems and product-service systems; transportation (automotive and aerospace) and energy systems
Interests: ageing aircraft; composites; fatigue and failure; additive manufacturing
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Special Issue in Materials: Corrosion in Additive Manufacturing
Interests: combustion instability; thermoacoustics; fabric drying; energy conversion; heat and mass transfer; fluid-structure interaction; aeroacoustics; aerodynamics; propulsion and energy harvesting
Interests: aircraft structural integrity; durability; damage tolerance; numerical modelling of material and structural failure behaviour; life prediction methods; metallic; fibre reinforced composites; experiments
Interests: fluid–thermal–structure interactions; nanophotonic fluid sensor, flow control; compressible flows; advanced flow diagnostics; shock physics; shock–vortex interactions; wind tunnel testing; engineering optimisation; unsteady aerodynamics; energy deposition; bio-inspired engineering; unconventional wing planforms
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Fluid-Structure Interactions
Special Issue in Aerospace: Design and Analysis of Wind-Tunnel Models and Fluidic Measurements
Special Issue in Aerospace: Fluid Dynamic Measurement Technologies: Optical and Nanophotonic Methods
Interests: aeroelasticity; aircraft structural dynamics; structural health monitoring
Interests: Fluid Mechanics; Experimental Methods; Turbulence; Aeroacoustics; Flow Control; Reduced Order Modeling; Bio-Inspired Low Reynolds Number Fluid Dynamics; Fluid Structure Interactions
Interests: experimental and theoretical aerodynamics; flow control; slender wing aerodynamics; wind tunnel testing; morphing technology and application
Interests: hypersonic aerodynamics; thermo-chemical nonequilibrium flow; atmospheric entry; descent and landing; computational fluid dynamics; wind tunnel experiment; flow separation and vortices
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Interests: computational fluid dynamics; vortex dynamics
Interests: fluid mechanics; turbulence; experimental fluid mechanics; direct numerical simulations
Interests: application of hybrid navier-stokes-discretized wake methods for rotors in forward flight and maneuvers; development of methodologies for modeling ice accretion with rotary wing applications; coaxial rotor CFD and aeroacoustics modeling and design; UAV propeller design; flight mechanics and control-oriented modeling for next generation on-blade and individual blade control concepts; mission adaptive rotors; surrogate models for dynamic stall and morphing rotors; reduced order modeling of ship-air wake interactions; lattice boltzmann modeling of flow control concepts; circulation control aerodynamics for efficient high-lift and cruise performance; active and passive control of vertical axis wind and tidal turbines
Interests: pressure- and temperature-sensitive paint technique; advanced flow diagnostics by luminescent imaging; micro-fiber coating as chemical flow control; ice-phobic coating for anti- and de-icing; unsteady aerodynamics; wind tunnel testing (low-speed, transonic-speed, high-speed, and high Reynolds-number flows); two phase flows; heat transfer in hypersonic flow; fluid-thermal-structure interactions; environmental and energy engineering; biomedical and biological applications
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Special Issue in Aerospace: Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircraft (Volume II)
Interests: aerospace sensors and systems; cyber-physical systems; aircraft systems; avionics; spaceflight systems; air traffic management; autonomous systems; unmanned aircraft systems; defence systems; intelligent transport systems; space traffic management; sustainable aviation; navigation, guidance and control; satellite navigation; electro-optics and infrared systems; human factors and ergonomics; cognitive human–machine systems; multisensor data fusion
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Special Issue in Sensors: Cyber-Physical Systems for Automated Decision Making and Trusted Autonomy
Special Issue in Sensors: Sensors for Unmanned Traffic Management
Interests: aeroacoustics and acoustics; aircraft noise and community noise; turbulent-flow induced noise; experimental aeroacoustics; turbulence modeling; Bio-inspired structural design for noise reduction
Interests: computational and experimental aerodynamics; wind tunnel technology; flow control; flight mechanics and aircraft performance; aeroacoustics; aeroelasticity; composite materials/structures and fatigue; failure analysis; crashworthiness; fluid–structure interaction; experimental fracture mechanics; fatigue of aircraft materials and structures; bio-inspired aerodynamical and structural design; UAVs; wind energy
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Interests: flapping wing aerodynamics; bioinspired flyers; multiphase flow; heat and mass transfer
Interests: aerodynamic simulation; design and optimisation; computational fluid dynamics development and applications; flow control technologies
Interests: smart structures; smart aircraft technologies; morphing structures; structural dynamics; vibration control; dynamic aeroelasticity; non-linear dynamics; mechanics and experimental dynamics
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Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Magneto-Rheological Fluids
Special Issue in Biomimetics: Aircraft Morphing Systems 2.0