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Review Article | 10.36959/422/468 Volume 7 Issue 1

Electrostatic Power from Negatively Charged Lunar Regolith

Authors: Sang H. Choi, Hyun Jung Kim and Robert W. Moses

Constant bombardment of electrons and protons from the solar wind and energetic plasmas in the terrestrial plasma-sheet has charged the lunar regolith negatively. The dust accumulated on spacesuits, i... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/466 Volume 6 Issue 2

Design of Hypervelocity Flow Generator (HFG) and Its Diagnostics

Authors: Kyo D Song and Sang H Choi

Ground facility for hypersonic research is a key element for successful development of aerodynamically proven hypervelocity vehicles. Design concept and diagnostics of hypervelocity flow generator (HF... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/465 Volume 6 Issue 1

A Preliminary Investigation of Copter Drone Detection by using Forward Scattering Radar

Authors: Surajo Alhaji Musa, Sa'idu Adamu Abubakar, Saad Hayatu Girei and Abdelmajid Husam Hussein Habush

A global security challenge from the civilian drone usage became alarming. The drone operational flexibility and its inexpensive make its usage on the increase, thus, causing a distressful situation. ... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/464 Volume 6 Issue 1

Mathematical Modelling and Comparative Numerical Simulations of Swing-Fuselage Junction Vortex Structures

Authors: S Adamidis and NC Markatos

Turbulence and flow disturbances occurring at the aircraft wing-fuselage junction cause a deterioration of its aerodynamic performance and an increase in the aircraft's drag force. However, the aircra... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/463 Volume 6 Issue 1

Effects of Surface-Parallel Edge Restraints and Inter-laminar Shear on the Responses of Doubly Curved General Cross-Ply Panels

Authors: Reaz Chaudhuri A and Sinan Oktem A

This study presents first a relatively lesser studied topic of the role played by surface-parallel restraints in determining the response of simply supported thick to thin doubly curved cross-ply pane... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/462 Volume 6 Issue 1

Research on Drag Reduction Characteristics of Wind Turbine Airfoil Surface Microstructure

Authors: Minghui Zhang, Haijuan Shi, Guangzhong Wang and Yan-an Yao

The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of the bionic microstructure surface on DU21 aerofoil. The motivation behind this study is to investigate the effect of the bionic microstructur... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/461 Volume 6 Issue 1

Helicopter Tail Rotor and the Training of a Recurrent Neural Network

Authors: S Castillo-Rivera

This work presents the training of a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) for the identification of dynamics behaviour in aeronautical systems. The network is used to model flap motion on the tail rotor at ... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/460 Volume 6 Issue 1

Predicted Low-Cycle-Fatigue Lifetime of Solder Joint Interconnections: Application of Hall's Approach and Boltzmann-Arrhenius-Zhurkov (Baz) Model

Authors: E. Suhir

A predictive model is suggested for the evaluation of the low-cycle-fatigue lifetime of a solder joint interconnection in an avionic IC package subjected to temperature cycling and experiencing low cy... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/459 Volume 6 Issue 1

Cylindrical Panel Like Response of Fully Surface Parallel Restrained Simply Supported Hyperbolic Paraboloidal Thick General Cross-ply Panels

Authors: Reaz Chaudhuri A and Sinan Oktem A

An analytical (exact in the limit) solution to the boundary-value problem of deformation of a finite-dimensional general cross-ply thick hyperbolic-paraboloidal panel, modeled using a third order shea... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/458 Volume 6 Issue 1

Numerical and Experimental Study of Liquid Cryogenic Jet around a Space Plane and Its Ignition Risk

Authors: J Dougal, P Gillard, M William-Louis, T Abensur, JP Dutheil and Y Boue

Ariane Group is currently developing space vehicles using new LOx/LCH4 propulsion technology. Venting or draining out methane from the tanks in flight at various altitudes concerns the safety manageme... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/456 Volume 5 Issue 2

Reducing the Aerodynamic Drag of the Mating Sections of the Combustion Chambers of Rocket Engines

Authors: Vladislav Smolentsev, Sergey Safonov and Evgeniy Panichev

Technological methods for manufacturing cooling elements of modern rocket engines are considered. They are developed taking into account the possibility of reusable use, which reduces the cost of manu... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/457 Volume 5 Issue 2

Performance and Scalability Make Advanced Carbon Materials Optimal for Air and Space Crafts

Authors: Adam Khan and Kiran Kumar Kovi

Currently, there are several coatings used to protect various defense and space crafts, however, they fail to perform in extreme environments due to limitations in that they are designed and in operat... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/455 Volume 5 Issue 2

Modelling of Honeycomb Sandwich Structure with Curved Edges and Performing Analysis Using Finite Element Method

Authors: Sai Krishna Pinnamaneni, Hasintha Hiran Amaranayaka Kariyakarawana Patabendige and Andrey Beyle

The aim of the study is to perform FE Analysis using ANSYS for the Honeycomb sandwich structures with varying skin thickness ranging from 0.5 to 2 mm and edges of the honeycombs are converted into cur... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/454 Volume 5 Issue 1

Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamic Analysis of a Large-Scale Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Authors: Brian Hand

The vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) configuration has many advantages for an offshore wind turbine installation. The VAWT is omnidirectional and its rotating mechanical components can be placed clos... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/453 Volume 5 Issue 1

An Experimental Investigation of the Vortex Merging over a Cranked-Delta Wing at Subsonic Speed

Authors: Fatemeh Mahdavi Zafarghandi and Mohammad Reza Soltani

A series of experiments was carried out to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a cranked-delta wing model. It has been noted by various researches that in the vicinity of the take-off angle... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/452 Volume 5 Issue 1

Bioinspired Propulsion Design Concepts for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones)

Authors: Ramana M Pidaparti and Evan B Neblett

This study aimed to develop a propulsion design concept for smart drones (UAVs – Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) mimicking bacterial flagellar motor that can be found in many bacterial cells. A preliminar... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/451 Volume 5 Issue 1

On the Comparison of Ten Pitch Trim Strategies for Cruise Drag Minimization

Authors: LMBC Campos and JMG Marques

The methods of minimization or maximization of lift, drag and pitching moment are extended to multiple coupled control surfaces with polynomial dependence of any degree on the control surface deflecti... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/450 Volume 5 Issue 1

On a Method of Lagrange Multipliers for Cruise Drag Minimization

Authors: LMBC Campos and JMG Marques

A blended-wing-body is an example of an aircraft configuration with multiple control surfaces. The most effective use of these control surfaces, e.g. to minimize cruise drag due to pitch trim, or to m... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/449 Volume 4 Issue 2

“Quantifying the Unquantifiable” in Aerospace Electronics and Ergonomics Engineering: Review

Authors: E Suhir

The today’s efforts of aerospace system engineers, not to mention human psychologists, to assure adequate operational reliability of electronic-and-photonic (E&P) products and satisfactory success-a... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/448 Volume 4 Issue 2

Impact of a Change from an Aluminium- to a Composite-Type Aircraft on Wind-Assisted Aviation-Fuel Fire Dynamics - a Numerical Study

Authors: HY Wang and GD Wang

This numerical study focuses on the impact of a composite-type aircraft on a large aviation-fuel fire in a moving fluid medium. A pyrolysis model over surface of condensed fuel and composite material ... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/447 Volume 4 Issue 2

Aeroacoustics Analysis of a Dual-Stream Subsonic Jet

Authors: Ferreira FGT and Almeida O

This work was part of a major investigation for coaxial jet noise prediction and refers to a study of geometrical and velocity parameters and their influence on the noise generated by coaxial nozzles.... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/446 Volume 4 Issue 2

Risk-Analysis in Aerospace Human-Factor-Related Tasks: Review and Extension

Authors: E Suhir

The focus of the review part, whose contents was partially presented as a plenary lecture at the 2019 Human Systems Integration (HSI) Conference in Biarritz, France, Sept. 11-13, is on the incentive f... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/445 Volume 4 Issue 2

Predicted Accelerations of Surface-Mounted Electron Devices during Spacecraft Launch

Authors: E Suhir

Nonlinear dynamic response of a thin-and-flexible horizontally-oriented rectangular printed circuit board (PCB), whose non-deformable support contour is subjected to a suddenly applied constant accele... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/444 Volume 4 Issue 2

The Outcome of an Engineering Undertaking of Importance Must be Quantified to Assure its Success and Safety: Review

Authors: E Suhir

The outcome a of crucial engineering undertaking must be quantified at the design/planning stage to assure its success and safety, and since the probability of an operational failure is, in effect, ne... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/443 Volume 4 Issue 2

Mass Loss of a Polymeric Composite under Action of Space Radiations

Authors: Rashid H Khasanshin and Meleshko Valentina

The effect of electron, proton and electromagnetic radiations on mass loss of EKOM-1 polymeric composite was studied. Irradiation was made by 40-keV electrons and protons and electromagnetic radiation... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/442 Volume 4 Issue 1

Maritime Orbital Strategic Superiority using Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building (MOS2AIC-B)

Authors: Dr. Georgios Mantzouris and Alex Bordetsky

This paper investigates the effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) using small satellites (< 1 kgr) in order to provide the framework for a governmental maritime superiority orbital system. The study ... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/441 Volume 4 Issue 1

Bonded Tri-Material Specimen Subjected to Shear-Off Testing: Predicted Interfacial Stresses

Authors: E Suhir

A physically meaningful and easy-to-use analytical model based on the concept of the interfacial compliance is developed for the evaluation of the interfacial shearing stresses at failure from the mea... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/440 Volume 4 Issue 1

Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Blended-Wing-Body VTOL UAV

Authors: Parisa Footohi, Adrien Bouskela and Sergey Shkarayev

The aerodynamic characteristics of blended-wing-body (BWB) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with vertical takeoff and landing capabilities (VTOL) were investigated in the present study. A novel layout of... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/439 Volume 4 Issue 1

Effects of Forebody Geometry on Side Forces on a Cylindrical Afterbody at High Angles of Attack

Authors: Timucin Serdaroglu, Hamed Pahlavani and I Bedii Ozdemir

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of the forebody geometry on the asymmetric side forces, separations and vortex shedding behind the vehicles at high angles of attack. It rep... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/438 Volume 3 Issue 2

Public Perception of Drones... or Should that be Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems?

Authors: Graham Wild, John Murray, Ayiei Ayiei, Mithun Abdu Sathar Eqbal and Eranga Batuwangala

The media coverage of remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) has highlighted some issues, particularly in terms of security and privacy concerns. As such, it is essential to understand the public's... Read more

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Short Note | 10.36959/422/437 Volume 3 Issue 1

Predicted Useful Lifetime of Aerospace Electronics Experiencing Ionizing Radiation: Application of BAZ Model

Authors: A Ponomarev and E Suhir

The objective of the analysis is to demonstrate how the Boltzmann-Arrhenius-Zhurkov (BAZ) model, originally suggested by Zhurkov in the kinetic concept of the strength of solids as a generalization of... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/436 Volume 3 Issue 1

Review of Structural Issues in the Design of a Box Wing Aircraft

Authors: Paul Jemitola and Paul Okonkwo

Box wing aircraft weight issues, structural interactions as well as inter-wing joint designs differ remarkably from Conventional Cantilever Wing configuration and present design challenges which have ... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/435 Volume 3 Issue 1

Design and CFD Analysis of a Blended Wing UAV (A Conceptual Design)

Authors: Tayyab Khan

Aerodynamic Forces mainly lift and Drag acting on an aircraft, are directly related to the geometry and wing profile of an aircraft. In this research we first designed a blended wing UAV (using X48B a... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/434 Volume 2 Issue 1

Photon Mass

Authors: SA Orlov

The atomic structure is presented on the basis of the theory of vortex gravitation. The feasibility and calculation of the values of the density and mass of electromagnetic particles are proposed. A c... Read more

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Review Article | 10.36959/422/433 Volume 2 Issue 1

Low-Cycle-Fatigue Failures of Solder Material in Electronics Packaging: Analytical Modeling Enables to Predict and Possibly Prevent Them-Review

Authors: E Suhir

This review paper is based mostly on the author's recent publications and addresses the application of analytical ("mathematical") predictive modeling to understand the physics and mechanics of the be... Read more

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Original Research Article | 10.36959/422/432 Volume 2 Issue 1

Towards an Airfoil Catalogue for Wind Turbine Blades at IDR/UPM Institute with OpenFOAM

Authors: F Sorribes Palmer, L Donisi, S Pindado, O Gomez Ortega and M Ogueta Gutierrez

A methodology to efficiently simulate wind tunnel tests of several airfoils with OpenFOAM has been developed in this work. This methodology bridges OpenFOAM capabilities with MATLAB post-processing in... Read more

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Original Research Article | 10.36959/422/431 Volume 1 Issue 2

Active Flutter Suppression of Stochastic Airfoil with Uncertain Pitch Stiffness

Authors: Wu Cunli and Tong Fang

Flutter suppression of a typical airfoil with uncertain pitch stiffness by feedback control of its trailing-edge surface is analyzed. The pitch stiffness coefficient is modeled by a quadratic function... Read more

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Original Research | 10.36959/422/430 Volume 1 Issue 2

A Thorough Study on the Temporal Accuracy of ALE-URANS Solvers with and Without Respecting Geometric Conservation Law

Authors: A Mosahebi and E Laurendeau

The importance of satisfying the Geometric Conservation Law (GCL) to maintain second-order temporal accuracy for flow evaluations on dynamic grids are investigated for a Finite Volume Method (FVM)-bas... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/429 Volume 1 Issue 2

Occupational and Residential Exposures to Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise in Aerospace Professionals: Flawed Assumptions, Inappropriate Quantification of Acoustic Environments, and the Inability to Determine Dose-Response Values

Authors: Mariana Alves-Pereira and Huub HC Bakker

Professionals within the aerospace industry are often required to remain within acoustic environments characterized by a predominance of low frequency and infrasound components. Safety-and-health-in-t... Read more

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Original Research Article | 10.36959/422/428 Volume 1 Issue 2

Dynamic Response and Vibration Control of a Planar Tensegrity Beam under El Centro Seismic Excitation

Authors: Xiaodong Feng

Tensegrity systems are mechanical structures made of struts in compression, kept in stable equilibrium by a network of cables in tension, they are a class of mechanical structures which are highly con... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/427 Volume 1 Issue 2

Critically Evaluating Mechanics of Structure Genome-Based Micromechanics Approach

Authors: Hamsasew M Sertse, Liang Zhang and Wenbin Yu

The objective of this paper is to critically evaluate the accuracy and efficiency of a general-purpose micromechanics approach based on the Mechanics of Structure Genome (MSG), when it is applied to t... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/426 Volume 1 Issue 1

On the Dynamics of Tensegrity Bridges

Authors: Gerardo Carpentieri and Robert E Skelton

This paper describes the nonlinear dynamics of planar tensegrity bridges designed for minimal mass. The three-dimensional bridge benefits by the planar analysis in the most important manner relating t... Read more

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Research Article | 10.36959/422/425 Volume 1 Issue 1

Instrumental Methodology for the Study of Vestibule-Ocular Reflex Associated to Spatial Disorientation Induced by Random Movements of a Human Gyroscope

Authors: Geovanny Palomino Roldan, R Mora Martinez and Ernesto Suaste Gomez

The present methodology describes a register system of ocular and head movements in a human gyroscope, whose purpose was to observe the behavior of the vestibulo-ocular reflex. Two stages compound the... Read more

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Original Article | 10.36959/422/424 Volume 1 Issue 1

Numerical Simulation of Aerodynamic Penalties of the DHC-6 Twin Otter Aircraft in Heavy Rain

Authors: Benyin Lv, Yihua Cao and Zhenlong Wu

Numerical simulations are conducted on the DHC-6 Twin Otter wing and horizontal tailplane to explore the aerodynamic penalties that affect airfoil performance in heavy rain conditions. An Eulerian-Lag... Read more

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Original Article | 10.36959/422/423 Volume 1 Issue 1

Effects of a Full Scale Aircraft Immersed within a Large Aviation-Fuel Fire in Crosswind on the Flame Shape - A Numerical Study

Authors: GD Wang and HY Wang

Large Eddy Simulation combined with an Eddy Dissipation Concept (EDC) combustion model shows the feasibility for simulations of a full scale aircraft immersed within a large aviation-fuel fire in a mo... Read more

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE | 10.36959/422/422 Volume 1 Issue 1

A Modified Particle Filter for SINS/SAR Integrated Navigation

Authors: Haifeng Yan, Bingbing Gao, Yongmin Zhong, Shesheng Gao and Chengfan Gu

This paper presents a modified particle filter for SINS/SAR (Strap-down Inertial Navigation System/Synthetic Aperture Radar) integrated navigation. This method is developed by adopting Markov Chain Mo... Read more

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE | 10.36959/422/421 Volume 1 Issue 1

Model Predictive Filtering Based Neural Networks for GPS GDOP Approximation

Authors: Yi Yang, Shesheng Gao, Yongmin Zhong and Chengfan Gu

This paper presents a new method to calculate the geometric dilution of precision (GDOP) of GPS by incorporating the concept of model predictive filtering in the training process of neural networks to... Read more

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