Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 95 Issue 1

Experimental and numerical study on heatwave effect over an airfoil for unmanned aerial vehicle applications

Somashekar V., Immanuel Selwynraj A.

The heatwave effects over an airfoil have a greater influence in the aerodynamic efficiency. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of heatwave upon the low…

Automatic management of electrical loads in more electric aircraft

Zhiyong Fan, Zhen Zhao, Zhexu Liu

This paper aims to automatically generate load shedding sequences due to insufficient power supply, to ensure flight safety and complete flight task.

Impact of the aileron gap sealing on the aileron effectiveness

Anna Kowalska, Tomasz Goetzendorf-Grabowski

The purpose of the presented aileron modification analysis is the improvement of the flight handling by eliminating adverse phenomena in the aileron area, such as aileron shaking…

Thrust modelling of a target drone engine with nonlinear least – squares estimation based on series expansions

Aziz Kaba, Ece Yurdusevimli Metin, Onder Turan

The purpose of this study is to build a high accuracy thrust model under various small turbojet engine shaft speeds by using robust, ordinary, linear and nonlinear least squares…

Online trajectory optimization and guidance algorithm for space interceptors with nonlinear terminal constraints via convex programming

Yuan Li, Ruisheng Sun, Wei Chen

In this paper, an online convex optimization method for the exoatmospheric ascent trajectory of space interceptors is proposed. The purpose of this paper is to transform the…

Comprehensive stiffness analysis of the cylindrical roller bearing for aircraft engines considering the radial clearance

CholUk Ri, Hwan Namgung, Zhunhyok Zhang, Chunghyok Chae, Kwangil Ri, Pongguk Ho, Ryong Zhang

The rotor system supported by the cylindrical roller bearings is widely used in various fields such as aviation, space and machinery due to its importance. In the study of the…

Synthesis cascade estimation for aircraft system identification

Wang Jianhong, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza

The purpose of this paper extends the authors’ previous contributions on aircraft system identification, such as open loop identification or closed loop identification, to cascade…

Attitude control and laser link acquisition strategy for a large-scale distributed satellite system with super long distance

Yaquan Han, Jihe Wang, Haifeng Huang, Jun Sun, Yue Sun

This study aims to establish the laser links between satellites among large-scale distributed satellite systems; a combined attitude control strategy containing two stages is…

Simultaneous swept anhedral helicopter blade tip shape and control-system design

Firat Sal

This paper aims to offer a simultaneous design approach for helicopter having swept anhedral blade tip shape and helicopter flight control system (HFCS) to minimize controller…

Recovery of flights disrupted by snowstorm

Xiaopeng Liu

To reduce the time of flight rescheduling, reduce the total delay cost of all flights to a minimum and put forward more references for passengers to take flights, this paper aims…

Influence of slot profiles on the characteristics of jets

Anusindhiya Krishnaraj, Vinayagamurthy Ganesan

The purpose of this research is to study and investigate the flow control of 0.8 Mach jet using three tab configurations. The tabs with the slots will eventually lead to…

CFD-CSD method for rotor aeroelastic analysis with free wake model

Siwen Wang, Qiyou Cheng

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)/computational structural dynamics (CSD) coupling analysis is an important method in the research of helicopter aeroelasticity due to its high…

Optimal design of space assembly microsatellite structure based on sequential quadratic programming

Yanbo Feng, Xiande Wu, Weidong Chen, Yaen Xie, Taihang Yu, Yong Hao

On-orbit assembly technology is a promising research topic in spaceflight field. For purposes of studying the dynamic performance and reducing weight of an on-orbit assembly…

A strategy of the longitudinal control for the tandem wing configuration design

Marcin Figat

This paper presents first sight on the longitudinal control strategy for an aircraft in the tandem wing configuration. It is an aerodynamic strongly coupled configuration that…

Bending and torsional vibration attenuation of multi-panel deployable solar array using reaction wheel actuators

Cunfu Wang, Bifa Chen

This paper aims to present a multi-axis actuating approach to attenuate the bending and torsional vibration of the solar array through the reaction wheel (RW) actuators.

INS/CNS/DNS/XNAV deep integrated navigation in a highly dynamic environment

Jintian Hu, Jin Liu, Yidi Wang, Xiaolin Ning

This study aims to address the problem of the divergence of traditional inertial navigation system (INS)/celestial navigation system (CNS)-integrated navigation for ballistic…