Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 94 Issue 6

Using axiomatic design approach in preliminary design of a blended wing body aircraft

Alireza Alipour, Mohammad Ali Shahi Ashtiani, Farid Shahmiri

This study aims to present a method for improving the preliminary design process of an aircraft.

Integrated autonomous optical navigation using Q-Learning extended Kalman filter

Kai Xiong, Chunling Wei, Peng Zhou

This paper aims to improve the performance of the autonomous optical navigation using relativistic perturbation of starlight, which is a promising technique for future space…

CFD investigation of shock boundary layer interaction in hypersonic flow and flow control using micro ramps

Gautam Gupta, Akshay Ashok Kumar, R. Sivakumar, Jayaraman Kandasamy

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of shock boundary layer interaction (SBLI) in air-breathing intake system is highly undesirable since this leads to high pressure…

Study of wake characteristics behind an oscillating NACA 0012 airfoil in deep dynamic stall regime

Surekha Rathi Samundi D., Rajasekar R.

This study aims to investigate the wake behind an oscillating airfoil at a various angle of incidence and Reynolds number in a deep dynamic stall condition.

An efficient evaluation method for wing fuel mass variations effect on transonic aeroelasticity

Dongfeng Li, Zhengzhong Wang, Andrea Da Ronch, Gang Chen

This paper aims to develop an efficient evaluation method to more intuitively and effectively investigate the influence of the wing fuel mass variations because of fuel burn on…

Study on oil-cooler location for a pusher type turbo prop aircraft using numerical simulation

Premkumar P.S., Nadaraja Pillai S., Senthil Kumar C.

Pusher configured turbo-prop aircraft receive inadequate ram air cooling due to the lack of propeller slipstream, particularly during ground operations. However, flow entrainment…

Reducing temperature, drag load and wear during aircraft tyre spin-up

Saeed Mahjouri, Rasoul Shabani, Martin Skote

Due to the static condition of the wheels at touchdown, they skid on the runway, which may cause the tyres to burn and wear. This phenomenon occurs in a fraction of a second…

Dynamic modeling analysis of the gas turbine engine rotor system with SFD

CholUk Ri, KwangChol Ri, ZhunHyok Zhang, ChungHyok Chae, Qiang Zhao, HyeIl Pak, JaeHun Kim, Hwan NamGung, ChangSop Kim

As a core rotating component of power machinery and working machinery, the rotor system is widely used in the fields of machinery, electric power and aviation. When the system…

Bird-strike damage analysis of composite panels with different stiffeners

Yile Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Youchao Sun

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the bird impact damage of fuselage composite stiffened structures by numerical method and to evaluate the damage and the bird impact…

Aero-propulsive interaction model for conceptual distributed propulsion aircraft design

Mohamed Awad, Eike Stumpf

This research aims to present an aero-propulsive interaction model applied to conceptual aircraft design with distributed electric propulsion (DeP). The developed model includes a…

Aerodynamic flow modelling of NACA 0010 using 2D panel and Jukouwski methods

Vasishta Bhargava, Satya Prasad Maddula, Swamy Naidu Venkata Neigapula, Md. Akhtar Khan, Chinmaya Prasad Padhy, Dwivedi Yagya Dutta

This paper aims to model the aerodynamic flow characteristics of NACA0010 for various angle of attacks including stall for incompressible flows using panel methods. This paper…

Research on flexible skin technique for adaptive bump inlet structure

Chang Zhao, Li Zhou, Tao Qiu

Adaptive bump inlet can adaptively change the shape of inlet bump surface according to the flight speed of aircraft, ensuring that the inlet has good inlet-engine match…

Active vibration reductions of a lift-offset compound helicopter using individual blade pitch control with multiple harmonic inputs

Young-Min Kwon, Sung-Boo Hong, Jae-Sang Park, Yu-Been Lee

The purpose of this study is to use the individual blade pitch control (IBC), reduce actively both the rotor hub vibratory loads and airframe vibration responses for the…

Establishing reduced thermal mathematical model (RTMM) for a space equipment: an integrative review

Mustafa Akbulut, Ahmet H. Ertas

The purpose of this study is to, first, provide an overview of the previously conducted works related to thermal analysis of space equipment, including battery packages…

Augmenting effectiveness of geared turbofan engines by dual stage radial blisks

Shouvik Bandopadhyay, Tanooj Jagdeep, Koshika Pandey, Nishchay Sadrani, Kannan B.T.

This study aims to propose a novel configuration for turbofan engine inlets to increase the overall effectiveness of the engine.

Optimization and off-design calculations of a turbojet engine using the hybrid ant colony – particle swarm optimization method

Altug Piskin, Tolga Baklacioglu, Onder Turan

The purpose of the paper is to present component matching and off-design calculations using generic components maps.