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Ming Qi, Wenguo Zhu and Shu Li
The flight of a migratory bird-like flapping-wing aircraft is characterized by a low Reynolds number and unsteadiness. The selection of airfoil profiles is critical to designing an efficient flapping-wing aircraft. To choose the suitable airfoil for vari...
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Dionysios N. Markatos and Spiros G. Pantelakis
Sustainability represents a key issue for the future of the aviation industry. The current work aims to assess and compare aircraft, under the prism of sustainable aviation. In the proposed approach, sustainability is understood as a trade-off between te...
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Xiaowei Cai, Chun Zhang and Baoshou Wang
This paper focuses on the application of a cross-flow fan (CFF) to generate propulsion for a submersible aircraft with a flying wing configuration. A numerical method is established to simulate the CFF operating both in the air and underwater. This paper...
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Yu-Cheng Wang, Tin Chen and Yu-Cheng Lin
As a viable means to enhance the sustainability and competitiveness of aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, three-dimensional (3D) printing has been extensively used in the aircraft industry. However, due to the growing number of suitable 3D printers ...
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Zhifu Lin, Hong Xiao, Xiaobo Zhang and Zhanxue Wang
Accurate prediction of aircraft engine thrust is crucial for engine health management (EHM), which seeks to improve the safety and reliability of aircraft propulsion. Thrust prediction is implemented using an on-board adaptive model for EHM. However, the...
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Dionysios N. Markatos, Sonia Malefaki and Spiros G. Pantelakis
When it comes to achieving sustainability and circular economy objectives, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools can be of aid in supporting decision-makers to reach a satisfying solution, especially when conflicting criteria are present. In a prev...
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Lu Zhang, Hongyu Yang and Xiping Wu
Air traffic management (ATM) relies on the running condition of the air traffic control sector (ATCS), and assessing whether it is overloaded is crucial for efficiency and safety for the entire aviation industry. Previous approaches to evaluating air tra...
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Yifan Ding, Xiaodong Du, Changrui Wang, Wei Tian, Chao Deng, Ke Li and Zihang Wang
The conformal antenna is a precision device installed on the wing of an aircraft, and its components are distributed on a curved surface. Quality detection is required after assembly. In solving the path planning problem for conformal antenna surface det...
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Shang Tai, Lixin Wang, Yanling Wang, Shiguang Lu, Chen Bu and Ting Yue
In the early stages of aircraft design, a scaled model of the aircraft is installed in a wind tunnel for dynamic semi-free flight to approximate real flight, and the test data are then used to identify the aerodynamic parameters. However, the absence of ...
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Osita Ugwueze, Thomas Statheros, Nadjim Horri, Michael A. Bromfield and Jules Simo
This paper presents the development of a robust sizing method to efficiently estimate and compare key performance parameters in the conceptual design stage for the two main classes of fully electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the pow...
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