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Yihe He, Xiaojuan Shi and Honghu Ji
Based on the orthogonal experimental method, a simulation case of the flow field of the ejector nozzle was designed to investigate the influence of the structural parameters of the ejector nozzle on the internal and external flow. This study explored the...
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Yingke Liao, Guiping Zhu, Guang Wang, Jie Wang and Yanchao Ding
Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) is one of the most promising novel propulsion technologies with the advantages of no pollution, high specific impulse, and high acceleration efficiency. As the carrier of this technology, the MHD accelerator has enormous potenti...
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Murat Millidere, Ferhat Akgül, Kemal Leblebicioglu and James F. Whidborne
For developing high-fidelity flight simulations, an accurate and complete representation of the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft is necessary. To obtain a realistic aerodynamic database, system identification methods can be used to describe th...
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Jason Cornelius, Sven Schmitz, Jose Palacios, Bernadine Juliano and Richard Heisler
This work details the development and validation of a methodology for high-resolution rotor models used in hybrid Blade Element Momentum Theory Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (BEMT-URANS) CFD. The methodology is shown to accurately predict sing...
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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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Shuli Wang, Ziang Li and Qingxin Zhang
The electric seaplane, designed for take-off and landing directly on water, incorporates additional structures such as floats to meet operational requirements. Consequently, during the take-off taxiing phase, it encounters significantly higher aerodynami...
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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Dongfeng Yan, Zehang Zhao, Anchen Song, Fengming Li, Lu Ye, Ganchao Zhao and Shan Ma
The fluidic pintle nozzle, a new method to control the thrust of a solid rocket motor, has been proposed in recent years by combining the pintle with the aerodynamic throat (fluidic throat). The study of static characteristics has proved that it has a re...
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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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Ahmed Mahfouz, Gabriella Gaias, D. M. K. K. Venkateswara Rao and Holger Voos
In this paper, the problem of autonomous optimal absolute orbit keeping for a satellite mission in Low Earth Orbit using electric propulsion is considered. The main peculiarity of the approach is to support small satellite missions in which the platform ...
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