Weather Impacts on Uncrewed Aircraft
A special issue of Drones (ISSN 2504-446X). This special issue belongs to the section "Drone Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2024 | Viewed by 12481
Special Issue Editors
Interests: UAS applications; aircraft design & flight test; micrometeorology; advanced air mobility
Interests: aerodynamics; UAV design & flight testing; vortex dynamics; flow control; bio-fluid flow; plasma physics; inflatable aerostructures
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Interests: development and application of UAS for atmospheric measurements; boundary layer meteorology; turbulence; wind energy meteorology; renewable energy and energy transition; polar meteorology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) seeks to bring safe, accessible, affordable, and automated aerial services and transportation for cargo and passengers. The aircraft participating in this new air transportation system span from small multirotors to larger uncrewed aircraft (UA) that transport people. Most of these operations will take place between the surface and 1500 m above the ground, i.e., typically within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), and span both urban and rural areas. Although this is a portion of the atmosphere that traditional manned aircraft have quickly passed through during ascent and descent, this is a new environment for sustained aviation operations and one that is characterized by highly variable meteorological conditions and high levels of atmospheric turbulence. Consequently, flight conditions can change dramatically across very short temporal and spatial scales. Exacerbating this challenging environment are the use of aircraft with lower mass, moment of inertia, thrust, and speed, thus making them extremely sensitive to their ambient environment.
This Special Issue aims to bring together the considerations that must be given to UA design and flight operations due to the wide variety of anticipated weather conditions for AAM operations. We welcome submissions that consider the wide variety of weather impacts and considerations, including, but not limited to:
- Aircraft design;
- Aircraft flight test;
- Sensor development and testing;
- Weather forecasting;
- Weather forecasting products;
- Environmental characterization;
- Mission planning;
- Measurement platforms of opportunity.
Dr. Kevin Adkins
Prof. Dr. Jamey Jacob
Prof. Dr. Joachim Reuder
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Drones is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- uncrewed aircraft
- drone
- atmospheric boundary layer
- micrometeorology
- advanced air mobility
- atmospheric physics
- UAS traffic management
- hyperlocal forecasting
- trajectory planning
- drone sensors
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Flow structure Around a Multicopter Drone: a Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis
Authors: Mauro Ghirardelli; Stephan T. Kral; Etienne Cheynet; Richard Hann; Nicolas C. Müller; Joachim Reuder.
Affiliation: University of Bergen, Norway; Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim, Norway;
Title: A Survey on Crowdsensing of Meteorological Data in Urban Environments for Aerial Vehicle Transportation
Authors: Dr. M. Ilhan Akbas; Rajagopal Sugumar:
Affiliation: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, United States
Title: Hyperlocal Weather Predictions with the Enhanced General Urban Area Microclimate Predictions Tool
Authors: Kevin Adkins; William Becker; Sricharan Ayyalasomayajula; Steven Lavenstein; Kleoniki Vlachou; David Miller; Marc Compere; Avinash Muthu Krishnan; Nickolas Macchiarella
Affiliation: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and BlueHalo Lab
Title: Evaluating the Impact of Wind on Urban Air Mobility eVTOL Operations: Implications for Vertiport Airside Traffic Flows
Authors: Karolin Schweiger; Reinhard Schmitz; Franz Knabe
Affiliation: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Cologne, Germany
Title: Sensor-less Wind Estimation for Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Authors: Marc Compere; Kevin Adkins; Avinash Muthu Krishnan
Affiliation: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
