Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 89 Issue 3

Conjugate rotor-stator interaction procedure for film-cooled turbine sections

Joshua Gottlieb, Roger Davis, John Clark

The authors aim to present a procedure for the parallel, steady and unsteady conjugate, Navier–Stokes/heat-conduction rotor-stator interaction analysis of multi-blade-row…

Optimization of turboprop ESFC and NOx emissions for UAV sizing

Ali Dinc

This paper aims to present a genuine code developed for multi-objective optimization of selected parameters of a turboprop unmanned air vehicle (UAV) for minimum landing-takeoff…

Mathematical model of one flexible transport category aircraft

Marcelo Santiago Sousa, Pedro Paglione, Roberto Gil Annes Silva, Flavio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro, Sebastião Simões Cunha

The purpose of this paper is to present a mathematical model of one very flexible transport category airplane whose structural dynamics was modeled with the strain-based…

Multiple fault-based FDI and reconfiguration for aircraft engine sensors

Isil Yazar, Fikret Caliskan, Emre Kiyak

Condition monitoring and health management of an aircraft engine is of importance due to engine’s critical position in aircraft. Missions require uninterrupted and safer…

A novel relative navigation method based on thrust on-line identification for tight formation keeping

Wenjing Zhu, Dexin Zhang, Jihe Wang, Xiaowei Shao

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel high-precision relative navigation method for tight formation-keeping based on thrust on-line identification.

Nonlinear integrated guidance and control based on adaptive backstepping scheme

Seyed Hamed Seyedipour, Mohsen Fathi Jegarkandi, Saeed Shamaghdari

The purpose of this paper is to design an adaptive nonlinear controller for a nonlinear system of integrated guidance and control.

Aerodynamic parameter identification of hypersonic vehicle via Pigeon-inspired optimization

Qiang Xue, Duan Haibin

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new approach for aerodynamic parameter identification of hypersonic vehicles, which is based on Pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO…

Hypersonic dynamic stability of wave riders

Mahmood Khalid, Khalid A. Juhany

The purpose of this paper is to obtain close form expressions for the dynamic stability of conical wave riders with flat surfaces which could be equipped with lifting surfaces on…

Continuous adjoint aerodynamic optimization design for multi-stage gas turbine with cooling air

Lei Chen, Jiang Chen

This paper aims to conduct the optimization of the multi-stage gas turbine with the effect of the cooling air injection based on the adjoint method.

Multiple-model adaptive estimator for spacecraft attitude sensor calibration

Kai Xiong, Chunling Wei

This paper aims to present a multiple-model adaptive estimator (MMAE) to calibrate the star sensor low frequency error (LFE). The star sensor LFE, which is caused primarily by the…

Fault tolerant control against actuator faults based on enhanced PID controller for a quadrotor

Ahmet Ermeydan, Emre Kiyak

The purpose of this paper is to present fault tolerant control of a quadrotor based on the enhanced proportional integral derivative (PID) structure in the presence of one or more…

Thermoelastic vibration and maneuver control of smart satellites

S. Ahmad Fazelzadeh, Emad Azadi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and control the thermally induced vibration of orbiting smart satellite panels, which have been modeled as functionally graded material…

Aerodynamic robust optimization of flying wing aircraft based on interval method

Yalin Pan, Jun Huang, Feng Li, Chuxiong Yan

The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust optimization strategy to deal with the aerodynamic optimization issue, which does not need a large sum of information on the…

Analysis on the attitude dynamics of a PhoneSat during deployment

Qiao Qiao, Jianping Yuan, Xin Ning

The purpose of this paper is to establish the dynamics model of a Z-folded PhoneSat considering hinge friction and to investigate the influence of disturbances, such as friction…