Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 94 Issue 10

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Experimental and numerical analysis of humpback whale inspired tubercles on swept wings

Jeena Joseph, Sathyabhama A., Surya Sridhar

With aims to increase the aerodynamic efficiency of aerodynamic surfaces, study on flow control over these surfaces has gained importance. With the addition of flow control…

Numerical study of the yaw control of flapless aircraft

Ling-Xiao Li, He-Yong Xu, Zhi-Jie Fu, Zeng-Chun Huang

The purpose of this paper is to study the yaw control of the flapless aircraft and investigate the equivalent control effect (ECE) and the power consumption of the pneumatic…

Analyzing well-to-pump emissions of electric and conventional jet fuel for aircraft propulsion

Melih Yildiz, Utku Kale, Andras Nagy

The purpose of this study is to show the emissions related to electric consumption in electric aviation. Aviation, being one of the main transportation and economical driver of…

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Lip thickness effect on high bypass co-flowing jet mixing

Naren Shankar R., Ganesan V.G.

The purpose of this study is to analyse numerically and experimentally the effects of lip thickness (LT) and bypass ratio on co-flowing nozzle under subsonic and correctly…

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Study on cooling inerting of an airborne fuel tank in flight

Guannan Liu, Liqun Wang, Hongming Wang, Long Huang, Hao Peng, Shiyu Feng

This study aims to seek a new economic and environmental protection fuel tank inerting method.

Fast vibro-acoustic simulation methods of satellite components

Jie Zhang, Weihua Xie, Yakun Wang, Jiang Zhou, Jiacong Yin

This paper aims to fast predict vibration responses of specific locations in the satellite subject to acoustic environment. It proposes a set of vibro-acoustic simulation methods…

CFD-based time-domain aeroelastic simulations of a twin-fudelage aircraft

Xinjiang Wang, Ziqiang Liu, Li Guo, Jinan Lv, Chen Ji

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel method to study the flutter coupling mechanism of the twin-fuselage aircraft, which is becoming a popular transportation vehicle…

LES predictions of confinement effect on swirling flow generated by single helical axial swirler

Mavuri Rajesh, Sivakumar R.

For higher swirling flows (swirl > 0.5), flow confinement significantly impacts fluid flow, flame stability, flame length and heat transfer, especially when the confinement ratio…

Performance analysis of electrical flight control actuation system in a commercial transport aircraft

Hamdi Ercan, Mustafa Akın

In more than 100 years of aviation, significant progress has been made in flight control systems. The aircrafts that have entered service for the past ten years tend towards…

Development and validation of the multicopter modelling code: a physics-based tool for multicopter analysis

David Kofi Oppong, Evans Obu, Timothy Asare, God'sable Sitsofe Koku Aidam

This study aims to present details of the development and validation of the multicopter modelling code (MMC), a tool for the analysis of small-scale multicopters based on flight…

Improved radial basis function artificial neural network and exact-time extended state observer based non-singular rapid terminal sliding-mode control of quadrotor system

Mati Ullah, Chunhui Zhao, Hamid Maqsood

The purpose of this paper is to design a hybrid robust tracking controller based on an improved radial basis function artificial neural network (IRBFANN) and a novel…

Fuzzy Bayesian based bow-tie risk assessment of runway overrun: a method for airline flight operations

Caner Acarbay, Emre Kiyak

The purpose of this paper is to improve risk assessment processes in airline flight operations by introducing a dynamic risk assessment method.

A new control strategy of stopped-rotor aircraft based on manipulation model

Honggang Gao

The purpose of this paper is to study the control strategy of transition mode of the stopped-rotor (SR) aircraft under the condition of redundant control and complex aerodynamic…

Artificial neural network based wing planform aerodynamic optimization

Burak Dam, Tolga Pirasaci, Mustafa Kaya

Environmental and operational restrictions increasingly drive modern aircraft design due to the growing impact of global warming on the ecology. Regulations and industrial…

Aerodynamic study of low Reynolds number airfoil and mini-unmanned aerial vehicle in simulated rain environment

Somashekar V., Immanuel Selwynraj A.

Rainfall is one of the main atmospheric conditions that significantly affect the aerodynamic performance of the low Reynolds number flights. In this paper, the adverse effects of…

Fault detection based on extended state observer and interval observer for UAVs

Lijia Cao, Xu Yang, Guoqing Wang, Yang Liu, Yu Hu

The purpose of this paper is to present an actuator fault detection method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on interval observer and extended state observer.

Semisupervised fault diagnosis of aeroengine based on denoising autoencoder and deep belief network

Defeng Lv, Huawei Wang, Changchang Che

The purpose of this study is to analyze the intelligent semisupervised fault diagnosis method of aeroengine.

Effect of turbulence intensity on aerodynamic characteristics of extended trailing edge airfoil

E. Livya, S. Nadaraja Pillai

This paper aims to study the extended trailing edge airfoil for a range of angle of attack at different intensities of turbulence.

A vision-aided fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller for autonomous landing of a nonlinear model helicopter on a moving marine platform

Farhad Pakro, Amir Ali Nikkhah

A vision-assisted fuzzy adaptive sliding mode controller is presented in this research and implemented on a nonlinear helicopter model, which is about to land on a moving ship…

The fuzzy PD control for combined energy and attitude control system

Sohaib Aslam, Yew-Chung Chak, Mujtaba Hussain Jaffery, Renuganth Varatharajoo

The satellite pointing accuracy plays a crucial role in ensuring a successful satellite mission itself. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the attitude pointing accuracy of the…

The effects of flap extension time on the fuel burn of commercial aircraft

Ozlem Sahin

This paper aims to investigate the effects of descent time spent with flaps extended on fuel burn (FB) and specific range for five different flight path angles (FPAs) ranging…

Multiple crack growth simulation for lap-joints based on three-dimensional finite element analysis

Jun Zou, Zhang Yuechao, Zhenyu Feng

The fuselage riveted lap-joints are susceptible to multiple site damage (MSD) and should be considered in damage tolerance analysis. This paper aims to investigate the stress…

Analysis of damage characteristics of an aeroelastic model for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles

Zhongge Guo, Yunxin Li, Yuhui Wang

To suppress fatigue damage and ensure structural safety, this paper aims to analyze the effect of the damage accumulation on the aeroelastic model of an air-breathing hypersonic…

Probabilistic fatigue life prediction of an aero-engine turbine shaft

Jun Wu, Hong-Zhong Huang, Yan-Feng Li, Song Bai, Ao-Di Yu

Aero-engine components endure combined high and low cycle fatigue (CCF) loading during service, which has attracted more research attention in recent years. This study aims to…

Enhanced X-ray pulsar navigation based on ranging information of a satellite

Li Zhang, Haiyan Fang, Weimin Bao, Haifeng Sun, Lirong Shen, Jianyu Su, Liang Zhao

X-ray pulsar navigation (XPNAV) is an autonomous celestial navigation technology for deep space missions. The error in the pulse time of arrival used in pulsar navigation is large…

Stability analysis of Mars soft landing under uncertain landing conditions and two landing strategies

Jianzhong Ding, Xueao Liu, Yang Dong, Chunjie Wang

The purpose of this paper is to study the landing performance of the Mars lander considering uncertain landing conditions under two landing modes.

Investigation of the effect of sloping head fault in solid riveting on the strength of the joint

Mustafa Soylak, Veysel Erturun

The purpose of this study is to investigate how the sloping head fault in solid riveting affects the strength of the joint and to develop an efficient system for the solution of…

Cover of Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

ISSN:

0002-2667

Online date, start – end:

1929

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Phil Webb