Aeronautics
A section of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Section Information
Aeronautics is a core section of the journal. It includes a wide range of topics covering scientific, engineering and applied aspects of interest for research and educational institutions, industry and corresponding agencies. The Aeronautics section publishes original papers, review articles and short notes related to fundamental and applied results, linked to potential applications that are related to research, design, manufacture, test facilities, instrumentation, operations, control and maintenance of aircraft. While a major focus is on completed studies and works-in-progress, researchers are encouraged to share their ideas and emerging approaches with the aeronautic community through the communications format. More specifically, subject areas suitable for publication in the Aeronautics section include, but are not strictly limited to, the following fields:
- Aero Acoustics
- Aerodynamics, including Subsonic, Transonic, Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows
- Aeroelasticity
- Aero Optics
- Aero Propulsion and Aero Engine, including Airbreathing, Electric and Hybrid Propulsion concepts
- Aircraft, including Avionics, Operation, Atmospheric Flight Control and Maintenance
- Boundary Layers and Flow-Surface Interaction
- Combustion and Chemical Kinetics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Fluid Dynamics, including Electro- and Magneto- Hydrodynamics
- Material Science and Structural Analysis, with applications in Aerospace Engineering
- Measurements and Diagnostics related to Atmospheric Flight and Ground Testing
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Plasmas and Lasers for Flow and Combustion Control
- Sense and Avoid Technology
- Shock Waves, including Shock-Shock and Shock-Boundary Layer Interaction
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Drones
- Wind Tunnels, Ground Testing Facilities and Instrumentation
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Advanced Aircraft Technology (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Control of Hypersonic Morphing Flight Vehicles (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Advances in Reduced-Order Modeling for Aerodynamic Analysis, Optimization, and Aeroelasticity (Deadline: 28 February 2026)
- Advances in Thermal Fluid, Dynamics and Control (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Multidisciplinary Intelligent Design and Optimization of Flight Vehicle Systems (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability and Transition upon Complex Geometries (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Airworthiness, Safety and Reliability of Aircraft (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Numerical Modelling of Aerospace Propulsion (Deadline: 31 March 2026)
- Dynamic Control for High-Speed Flights (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Selected Papers from 11th International Conference on Vortex Flow Mechanics (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Challenges and Innovations in Aircraft Flight Control (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Conceptual Design for Aeronautics Propulsion Applications (Deadline: 30 April 2026)
- Combustion of Solid Propellants (Deadline: 15 May 2026)
- Formation Flight of Fixed-Wing Aircraft (Deadline: 30 May 2026)
- Advanced Aircraft Composite Structure Design (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- High Speed Aircraft and Engine Design (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Recent Advances in Icing Studies and Energy-Efficient De-Icing/Anti-Icing Technologies (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Overall Aircraft Design for New Airframe Technologies, New Energy Systems, and New Operations—2nd Edition (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircraft (Volume IV) (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Innovations in Rotorcraft Flight Dynamics and Control (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Structural Dynamics Modelling, Aeroelastic Analysis and Experimental Verification Methods for Aircraft Systems (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Aircraft Conceptual Design: Tools, Processes and Examples (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Composite Materials and Aircraft Structural Design (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Advances in UAVs: Design Methods, Performance Enhancement Techniques and Technologies (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
- Conceptual Design and Multidisciplinary Optimization of Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Aircraft Structural Design Materials, Modeling, and Optimization (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Resilient and Intelligent Autonomous Flight: Dynamics, Guidance, and Control Systems (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Structural Strength, Life Reliability and Design Optimization of Aircraft Engines (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Multi-UAV Target Tracking and Control (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Next-Generation Drones for Urban Air Mobility: Advances and Innovations (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Application of Multidisciplinary Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Aerospace Engineering (Volume III) (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Environmental Influences on Aircraft Aerodynamics (Deadline: 15 September 2026)
- Aerodynamic Optimization of Flight Wing (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Advanced Modeling of Aero-Engine Complex Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Instability and Transition of Compressible Flows (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Nonlinear Problems of Aircraft Flight Dynamics (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Low-Altitude Technology and Engineering (Deadline: 30 October 2026)
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for Climate-Neutral Transport Aviation (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Machine Learning for Aerodynamic Analysis and Optimization (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Sensitivity Analysis and Design Optimization for Aerospace Systems (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Aeroelasticity, Volume V (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Advances in Aero-Engine Aerodynamics and Flow Physics (Deadline: 30 December 2026)
- On-Board Systems Design for Aerospace Vehicles (3rd Edition) (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Power Management for Hybrid Electric Aircraft (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Hypersonic Aerodynamics and Propulsion (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Aircraft Thermal Management Technologies (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Flight Dynamics, Control & Simulation (3rd Edition) (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Aircraft Design (SI-8/2026) (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Aircraft Structural Dynamics (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Vortex Flow Phenomena and Physics of Aerospace Engineering Applications (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 31 December 2026)