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Recent Advances in Applied Aerodynamics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5030
Keywords: CFD; aerodynamic testing; design optimization; flow control; flow-structure interaction; boundary layer transition.
Lab-on-a-Chip Devices and Systems for Microgravity Simulation and Aerospace Applications submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1359
Keywords: microfluidics actuation; lab-on-a-chip; nanomaterials; microgravity; microsystems
Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircraft (Volume III)
edited by and Xiaobin Shen
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 19781 | Submission Open
Keywords: deicing; anti-icing; ice accretion; ice adhesion; ice cohesion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Dynamics, Guidance and Control of Aerospace Vehicles
edited by , Wenbin Yu and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2798 | Submission Open
Keywords: analytical dynamic models; aerospace vehicle dynamics; trajectory planning; entry guidance; multi-constraint guidance; cooperative guidance; dynamics and control of formation flying; trajectory optimization; optimal control of aerospace vehicles
Space Navigation and Control Technologies
edited by Xin Ma, Wei Zhang and Dongyu Li
submission deadline 28 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1909 | Submission Open
Keywords: autonomous navigation; integrated navigation; celestial navigation; pulsar navigation; optical navigation; maneuver control; networked spacecraft cooperation; adaptive systems; robotic control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Selected Papers from IWSHM 2023 submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 486 | Submission Open
Keywords: sensors/actuators; remote sensing/aerial sensing; sensor networks/system integration; multifunctional materials and structures; diagnostics/signal processing/state awareness; prognostics/health management/safety assurance; cyber-physical systems for aerospace/civil SHM; implementation/validation/certification; applications/Industry Internet of Things (IIOT); advanced design with built-in SHM; intelligent data-driven diagnostics; preventive maintenance
Advances in Air Traffic and Airspace Control and Management (2nd Edition) submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 17 articles | Viewed by 16324 | Submission Open
Keywords: airspace; Air Traffic Control; trajectory prediction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
Structures, Actuation and Control of Morphing Systems submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10248 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Space Propulsion: Advances and Challenges (2nd Edition)
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5754 | Submission Open
Keywords: space propulsion; chemical propulsion; electric propulsion; hybrid propulsion; solar sail propulsion; nuclear propulsion; spacecraft; rocket; launch vehicle; satellite; cubesat; deep space explorer
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Research and Development of Supersonic Aircraft submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4632 | Submission Open
Keywords: supersonic aircraft design; experiments; computer simulations; aircraft design; flight experiments; sonic boom mitigation; low emission technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Advances in CubeSat Sails and Tethers (2nd Edition) submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3465 | Submission Open
Keywords: propellantless CubeSat propulsion; lightsails (photon pressure propulsion) and dragsails (atmospheric drag); electric solar wind sail and plasma brake (Coulomb drag propulsion); electrodynamics tethers (Lorentz force propulsion); earth orbit as well as interplanetary CubeSats; orbital debris; on-board orbit and attitude control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Vertical Lift: Rotary- and Flapping-Wing Flight
edited by Umberto Saetti, and Pierluigi Capone
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1789 | Submission Open
Keywords: rotorcraft; flapping-wing flight; aerodynamics; fluid dynamics; stability and control; structures; structural dynamics; aeroelasticity; propulsion; acoustics; autonomy; biology; biomechanics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Flight at Supersonic and Hypersonic Velocities: Aerodynamics, Flow Control, Propulsion
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 801 | Submission Open
Keywords: supersonic flow; hypersonic flow; aerodynamics; flow control; propulsion; shock wave; heat transfer; shape optimisation; thermal protection; scramjet; ramjet
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Challenges and Innovations in Aircraft Flight Control
edited by Nadjim Horri and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 667 | Submission Open
Keywords: UAV; electric aircraft; fault; disturbance; optimal; robust control; adaptive; hybrid control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Advances in UAV Technology: Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Transformative Aerial Vehicles
edited by Sergio Esteban, Guilherme V. Raffo, Daniel Neri Cardoso and Marcelo Alves Dos Santos
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); innovative UAV design; UAV dynamics; guidance systems; navigation technologies; control mechanisms; convertible UAVs; bio-inspired UAVs; unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles; eVTOL (electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing); unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM); distributed UAV networks; UAV path planning; mathematical modeling in UAVs; UAV applications; localization and mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
New Developments in Aeroacoustics Research: From Fundamentals to Applications
edited by Zamir Koshuriyan and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open
Keywords: aeroacoustics; turbulence modelling; statistical analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Advances in Solar-Powered Aircraft Design and Control
edited by Kangwen Sun
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: requirement analysis; overall design; aerodynamics; structural optimization; propulsion system; flight control; autonomous navigation; energy management; artificial intelligence
Advanced Spacecraft/Satellite Technologies submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14838 | Submission Open
Keywords: radiation protection; thermal management; guidance; navigation and control; space power and propulsion; space structure; communication; life support; on-orbit servicing; assembly and manufacturing; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Spacecraft Sample Collection
edited by Brent J. Bos
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2645 | Submission Open
Keywords: planetary sampling; sampling techniques and hardware; spacecraft instrumentation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Laser Ultrasound Techniques for Aerospace Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1382 | Submission Open
Keywords: laser ultrasound; non-destructive testing; aircraft structural integrity; high-resolution imaging; structural health monitoring; signal processing algorithms; material characterization; complex geometries; laser pyroshock simulation; laser acoustic emission training; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Aerodynamic and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
edited by and Jiangtao Huang
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7567 | Submission Open
Keywords: aerodynamic shape optimization; multidisciplinary design optimization; coupled adjoint method; new-concept aircraft; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Advanced Technology of Distributed Space Systems: Formation-Flying, Swarms, and Constellations
edited by , Yafei Zhao, Tao Nie and Xiangtian Zhao
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5633 | Submission Open
Keywords: distributed space system; spacecraft formation flying; swarm; constellation; coordinated perception and control; collision avoidance; satellite networking; joint sensing; communication; and computation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
New Insights into Aerodynamics and Cooling in Gas Turbine Engines
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4604 | Submission Open
Keywords: gas turbine; turbine blade aerodynamics; additive manufacturing; passive flow control; advanced cooling system; turbine blade/vane cooling; novel external cooling; high-efficiency internal cooling; double-wall cooling; conjugate heat transfer; experimental/analytical methods; computational fluid dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Aeroelasticity, Volume IV
edited by
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4362 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Predicting the Onset and Control of Thermoacoustics submission deadline 29 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3255 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermoacoustic oscillations; nonlinear analysis; prediction of its onset; active and passive control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Sustainable Civil Supersonic and Hypersonic Aircraft: Main Challenges and Latest Developments
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10928 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Numerical Simulations in Electric Propulsion
edited by , , and Vittorio Giannetti
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8369 | Submission Open
Keywords: electric propulsion; plasma thrusters; plasma physics; numerical modeling; MHD; fluid methods; kinetic methods; particle-in-cell; hybrid methods
Electric Machines for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion
edited by Justin J. Scheidler and Parag Kshirsagar
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7110 | Submission Open
Keywords: electric machine configuration; design; and performance; effect of machines on aircraft-level performance; interactions between machines and other EAP system components and their combined performance; reliability; maintainability; and concept of operations; conductor selection and design; lightweighting; materials and subcomponents of cryogenic machines; thermal management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Electric Power Systems and Components for All-Electric Aircraft
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5045 | Submission Open
Keywords: all-electric aircraft; power systems; circuit breakers; power cables; motors; batteries; fuel cells; supercapacitors; converters; storage resources; low pressures; arc; arc tracking; partial discharges
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Integrating Disruptive Technology at the Aircraft Level submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4317 | Submission Open
Keywords: disruptive aircraft design; enabling technologies; electric propulsion; sustainable alternative fuels; MDO enhanced by Machine Learning; hydrogen-powered aircraft; coatings; smart structures; supersonic commercial flight; noise mitigation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Planetary Exploration
edited by Roy Lichtenheldt
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4080 | Submission Open
Keywords: planetary exploration; rover; terramechanics; in situ exploration; orbital observations; robotics; subsurface; drilling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
UAV System Modelling Design and Simulation
edited by and Miha Brojan
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2523 | Submission Open
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle; drones; electric propulsion; simulation; numerical modelling
Future Airspace and Air Traffic Management Design
edited by Sebastian Schier-Morgenthal, Daniel Delahaye, Bernd Korn and Ingrid S. Gerdes
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 981 | Submission Open
Keywords: airspace design; future air traffic management structures and methods; air traffic control; automation; flexible airspace design; artificial intelligence in air traffic management; digital assistance; next (digital) level of situational awareness
(This special issue belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
Enabling Electric Aircraft Technology and Systems for Net-Zero Operation
edited by and Marco Rivera
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 278 | Submission Open
Keywords: lightweight electric motors; power electronics; cascaded H bridge; multi-level converters; net zero; ePlane; microgrid; lightweight batteries; battery swap; cost of ownership; energy sources
(This special issue belongs to the Section Air Traffic and Transportation)
Droplet Impact for Airfoil Performance
edited by and Suthyvann Sor
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 163 | Submission Open
Keywords: droplet dynamics; droplet deformation; droplet aerobreakup; collection efficiency; splashing; heavy rain; icing; SLD; airfoil performance degradation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Artificial Intelligence in Aeroacoustics for Aerospace Applications
edited by , and Luana Georgiana Stoica
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open
Keywords: aeroacoustics; machine learning; artificial intelligence; noise reduction; noise prediction; noise localization; buffeting; wall pressure fluctuations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
AI-Enabled Signal Processing for Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks
edited by
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1190 | Submission Open
Keywords: Space– Air– Ground networks; signal processing; SAGIN
Overall Aircraft Design for New Airframe Technologies, New Energy Systems and New Operations
edited by Yaolong Liu, Mingqiang Luo and
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 594 | Submission Open
Keywords: overall aircraft design; aircraft technology integration; EVTOL; MDAO (Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization); MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering); hybrid electric propulsion; laminar flow control; formation flight; trajectory optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Aerospace Anti-icing Systems submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1278 | Submission Open
Keywords: anti-icing systems; aviation safety; ice accretion model; advanced materials and coatings; thermal anti-icing; chemical anti-icing; mechanical anti-icing; electro-expulsive anti-icing; ice formation mechanisms; de-icing chemicals; aircraft design; operational strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Recent Research on UAM/AAM Aircraft and Systems: Modeling, Advanced Control, and Emerging Technologies submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7214 | Submission Open
Keywords: green air mobility; sustainable air transportation; urban air traffic; advanced air mobility; electric propulsion; vertical takeoff and landing; sustainable energy
Small Satellite Missions
edited by and Necmi Cihan Örger
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2868 | Submission Open
Keywords: small satellites; CubeSats; nano-satellites; micro-satellites; mini-satellites; AIV; system engineering; space systems; mission analysis; space traffic management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Aerospace Combustion Engineering (2nd Edition) submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2748 | Submission Open
Aircraft Design and System Optimization
edited by Musavir Bashir, and Susan Liscouët-Hanke
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 514 | Submission Open
Keywords: aircraft design optimization; aircraft Subsystem optimization; integrated design frameworks; model-based systems engineering (MBSE); advanced optimization algorithms; high-fidelity simulations; surrogate modeling; metaheuristic optimization; uncertainty quantification; multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization; innovative aircraft configurations; environmental sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Advances in Lunar Exploration submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 299 | Submission Open
Keywords: lunar exploration; in situ resources utilization; lunar satellite navigation; communication; rovers design and GNC; new services for future missions; landing; outpost design and life support systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Innovative Aircraft Electrical Power Systems
edited by Seang Shen Yeoh
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open
Keywords: aircraft electrical power system; stability analysis; modelling; architecture optimisation; aircraft electric propulsion; aircraft power distribution; energy storage for aircraft; hybrid electric aircraft; other electric aircraft
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Transonic Flow (2nd Edition)
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Keywords: transonic flow; shock wave; buffet; boundary layer interaction; computational fluid dynamics; wind tunnel testing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Aeroservoelastic Control
edited by Kumar Vikram Singh
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open
Keywords: aeroservoelastic (ASE) analysis; active aeroelastic control; flutter suppression; smart materials in ASE control; aeroelastic control optimization; actuator design and performance for ASE control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Guidance, Navigation and Control Algorithms for Satellite Formation Flying
edited by Gabriella Gaias and Jean-Sébastien Ardaens
submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4603 | Submission Open
Keywords: relative navigation; relative orbit determination; spacecraft rendezvous; satellite formation flying; formation reconfiguration; active debris removal; autonomy; swarms; space distributed systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuator submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 208 | Submission Open
Keywords: induced flow; flow control; flow separation; flow instability and turbulence; jet noise; shock wave– boundary layer interaction; power supply; alternative current dielectric barrier discharge; nano-second pulse dielectric barrier discharge; ozone production mechanism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
Space Sampling and Exploration Robotics
edited by and Shengyuan Jiang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11197 | Submission Open
Keywords: planetary regolith; soil– machine interaction; sampling robotics system; detecting payloads; property detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
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