Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 84 Issue 4

Fractional controller design for suppressing smart beam vibrations

Cem Onat, Melin Şahin, Yavuz Yaman

The purpose of this paper is to detail the design of a fractional controller which was developed for the suppression of the flexural vibrations of the first mode of a smart beam.

Analysis of noise in aircraft cabins through the VHF channel

Jorge Rady de Almeida Junior, Magali Andreia Rossi, Mário Corrêa, Javier Francisco Ramirez‐Fernandez, Vicente Carlos Poli, Genivaldo José de Menezes

The purpose of this paper is to present a method to analyze the noise in aircraft cabins through the VHF Aeronautical Communication Channel, aimed at examining an environment that…

Automated generation of aerofoil characteristics for rotorcraft application

Ngoc Anh Vu, Jae‐Woo Lee, Sangho Kim, Daniel Neufeld

Rotor performance analysis and design are complex due to the wide variation in flow characteristics. Design tools that can rapidly and accurately compute aerofoil data are needed…

Analysis of effective parameters on ablative PPT performance

Abdolrahim Rezaeiha, Tony Schönherr

The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively review most of the significant works ever done worldwide to study the effects of essential parameters on pulsed plasma thruster…

Robust performance optimization of dual thrust rocket motor

Muhammad Aamir Raza, Wang Liang

During any design phase, the associated process variations and uncertainties can cause the design to deviate from its expected performance. The purpose of this paper is to propose…

Dynamics analysis of satellite cluster non‐coplanar orbit transfer based on geometric method

Wei Zhang, Zhongmin Deng, Jingsheng Li

The purpose of this paper is to propose strategies for satellite cluster non‐coplanar orbit transfer to reduce fuel cost of formation maintenance and orbit maneuver.

Optimal virtual center selection for formation flying maintenance

Jihe Wang, Xibin Cao, Jinxiu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a fuel‐optimal virtual centre selection method for formation flying maintenance in the J2 perturbed environment.