Astronautics

This book presents a new approach to learning the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies at an intermediate to advanced level.

This book describes and explains the basis of bio-inspired, leading-edge tubercles based on humpback whale flippers as passive but effective flow control devices, as well as providing a comprehensive practical guide in their applications.

This book gathers contributions addressing issues related to the analysis of composite structures, whose most relevant common thread is augmented numerical efficiency, which is more accurate for given computational costs than existing methods and methodologies.

This book shows how anthropology can provide an innovative perspective on the human movement into space.

This book explains how stress - either psychological or physical - can activate and/or paralyse human innate or adaptive immunity.

This book reports on the design and development of a system that assists remote pilots during navigation.

This book presents a selection of scientific and technical results utilizing new computational methods, tools, and technologies in Aeronautical Design.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design and Technology provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology basics.

Between 1983 and 1998, Spacelab provided NASA with a vital short-term laboratory in space.

Folienlager sind Gleitlager mit einer nachgiebigen Innenkontur.

This book presents a collection of the best papers from the Seventh Asian Joint Workshop on Thermophysics and Fluid Science (AJWTF7 2018), which was held in Trivandrum, India, in November 2018.

Guided by genius engineer Hideo Itokawa, Japan's space program began with small scientific satellites more than 50 years ago.

The aim of this book is to explain, analyze and compute the kinds of motions that appear in an extended vicinity of the geometrically defined equilateral points of the Earth-Moon system, as a source of possible nominal orbits for future space missions.

This book studies several problems related to the analysis of planned or possible spacecraft missions.

It is well known that the restricted three-body problem has triangular equilibrium points.

In this book the problem of station keeping is studied for orbits near libration points in the solar system.

This book presents the state of the art in numerical and analytical techniques as well as future trends associated with mission design for libration point orbits.

This book is an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems.

This book provides a general introduction to fluid mechanics in the form of biographies and popular science.

This book provides an overview of advanced prediction and verification technologies for aerodynamics and aerothermodynamics and assesses a number of critical issues in advanced hypersonic vehicle design.

This book presents up-to-date concepts and design methods relating to space dynamics and control, including spacecraft attitude control, orbit control, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), summarizing the research advances in control theory and methods and engineering practice from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering over the years.

This book discusses the journey of Dr.

This book describes systematically the theory and technology of the precision forming of large, complex and thin-walled superalloy castings for aircraft engines, covering all the important basic aspects of the manufacturing process, including process design, wax pattern, ceramic molds, casting and solidification, heat treatment, repair casting and dimension precision control.

This book describes systematically telemetry theory and methods for aircraft in flight test.

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This book presents select peer reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air Systems (DELTAs 2022) which was held at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

This volume includes select peer reviewed proceedings from the 3rd International Conference on Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME 2021) discussing the application of computer based simulations in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

This book analyzes the problems to be solved urgently in the development of launch vehicle control system.

This textbook highlights the fundamentals of aerodynamics and the applications in aeronautics.

The volume comprises proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Aviation.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 3rd National Aerospace Propulsion Conference (NAPC 2020).

This book comprehensively covers the history and current developments of space programme of China.

This book provides a systematic and standardized approach based on the authors' over 30 years of research experience with weight function methods, as well as the relevant literature.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 3rd Structural Integrity Conference and Exhibition (SICE 2020).

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This book presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of ASEAN space development programs.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Mechanical Engineering (ICIME 2021).

This book introduces readers to a range of jamming principles and techniques for new radars, combining a wealth of theoretical analyses, test data, calculations, and charts.

This book highlights the technological and managerial fundamentals and frontier questions of space science.

This book presents the dynamic modeling and attitude control of flexible spacecraft with time-varying parameters.

This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systems-both component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared; and (2) advanced nonlinear control designs-set-point control, transient control and limit-protection control approaches will all be investigated.

This book provides a basic understanding of adaptive control and its applications in Flight control.

This book presents the relationships between tensile damage and fracture, fatigue hysteresis loops, stress-rupture, fatigue life and fatigue limit stress, and stochastic loading stress.

This book tells the story of the evolution of the Satellite Center which started from a small Satellite Systems Division in 1967 with a handful of engineers to a vibrant R&D center which is playing the lead role in the Indian Satellite Program.

The book is a collection of academician Yanzhong Zhang's research papers published in English.

This book systematically presents the concept, history, implementation, theory system and basic methods of pulsar and space flight, illustrating the characteristics of pulsars.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Sustainable Technologies (ICAST 2020), organized by Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India.

The book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Engineering Structures (SHM&ES) 2020.

This book provides a systematical and comprehensive description of some facets of modeling, designing, analyzing and exploring the control allocation and fault-tolerant control problems for over-actuated spacecraft attitude control system under actuator failures, system uncertainties and disturbances.

This is the first authored English book completely focused on global navigation satellite system reflectometry (GNSS-R).