Aerospace and aviation technology

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) technology and their potential applications.

Space medicine has been an important component of the success of human spaceflight and will continue to play a critical role in the future ventures.

The book serves as a core text for graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics and applied science.

Explorer was the original American space program and Explorer 1 its first satellite, launched in 1958.

Air shows are high-risk activities that must be conducted with careful thought towards the general public, spectators, and flying and nonflying participants to ensure that the activity is as safe as reasonably possible.

In recent years, airline practitioners and academics have started to explore new ways to model airline passenger demand using discrete choice methods.

This book is the third in a series dedicated to aerospace actuators.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Using a wealth of archival material, including government documents, Liz Millward investigates the very idea of airspace.

This thesis proposes new power converter topologies suitable for aircraft systems.

For anyone interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats, insects and air vehicles (MAVs).

This study was undertaken in response to a request by the U.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

An invaluable addition to the literature on UAV guidance and cooperative control, Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is a dedicated, practical guide to computational path planning for UAVs.

Aerodynamic Noise extensively covers the theoretical basis and mathematical modeling of sound, especially the undesirable sounds produced by aircraft.

Aircraft safety is a function of several parameters including flight stability and control.

The history of flight started with the pioneer era.

This book presents iterative learning control (ILC) to address practical issues of flexible structures.

This book presents the fundamental methods of modeling, analysis and synthesis of transport processes which allow:- to optimize the work of transport organizations according to different criteria of their functioning;- to evaluate the quality of decisions made in conditions of high entropy and uncertainty of technological processes when applying new technologies and systems;-to reduce the negative impact of the human factor on the safety of ongoing transport processes by increasing the motivational component of the training processes for the operator of active transport systems.

This book analyzes various properties and structures of ice from the point of view to solve problems in civil aviation.

Using specially commissioned artwork and detailing technical specifications, this book explores the Bf 109's different roles occasioned by wartime necessity, from its employment as a fighter to its evolution as a fighter-bomber.

Authoritative, highly readable history of aerodynamics and the major theorists and their contributions.

This book provides first-year graduate engineering students and practicing engineers with a solid introduction to random signals and estimation.

The Space Age is nearly 50 years old but exploration of the outer planets and beyond has only just begun.

Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed to assist in the motion control of various types of mini-aircraft: Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft; helicopters; quadrotor mini-rotorcraft; other fixed-wing aircraft; blimps.

This book focuses on the theory and design of special space orbits.

In Distributed Algorithms, Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms.

Heat Transfer in Aerospace Applications is the first book to provide an overall description of various heat transfer issues of relevance for aerospace applications.

Uncertainty is certain to be found in structural engineering, making it crucial to structure design.

The mounting problem of space debris in low earth orbit and its threat to the operation of application satellites has been increasingly recognized as space activities increase.

In Space Debris Models and Risk Analysis the authors will provide the reader with a comprehensive background to understand the various sources of space debris, and to assess associated risks due to the current and future space debris environment.

Morphing Aerospace Vehicles and Structures provides a highly timely presentation of the state-of-the-art, future directions and technical requirements of morphing aircraft.

While stress and fatigue are often dealt with in other books on aviation performance and human factors, these realities of human vulnerability are now increasingly seen as central to the effective conduct of flight operations.

Proceedings of the First Symposium on Aviation Maintenance and Management collects selected papers from the conference of ISAMM 2013 in China held in Xi'an on November 25-28, 2013.

This seventh volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The field of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and hybrids is a vibrant research area.

Fault-Tolerant Attitude Control of Spacecraft presents the fundamentals of spacecraft fault-tolerant attitude control systems, along with the most recent research and advanced, nonlinear control techniques.

Tethered Space Robot: Dynamics, Measurement, and Control discusses a novel tethered space robot (TSR) system that contains the space platform, flexible tether and gripper.

The book reports on the latest theoretical and experimental findings in the field of active flow and combustion control, in the context of energy conversion for power and propulsion systems.

Prior to liberalization, there was little scope for predatory behaviour in the aviation market.

This book presents high-quality contributions in the subject area of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, including topics such as: Trans-space vehicle systems design and integration, Air vehicle systems, Space vehicle systems, Near-space vehicle systems, Opto-electronic system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Communication, navigation and surveillance, Dynamics and control, Intelligent sensing and Information fusion, Aerodynamics and aircraft design, Aerospace propulsion, Avionics system, Air traffic management, Earth observation, Deep space exploration, Bionic micro-aircraft/spacecraft.

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the basic concepts of space mechanics.

Revised and updated in its fifth edition, this internationally renowned and respected book provides the essentials to understanding all areas of airline finance.

This book reflects general trends in the study of geometric aspects of functional analysis, understood in a broad sense.

One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W.

This book discusses the multiple systems that make commercial jet travel safe and convenient.

This book concentrates on high-fidelity numerical methods for predicting internal flows within aeroengines' compressors.

Hermann Schlichting is one of the internationally leading scientists in the field of th fluid mechanics during the 20 century.

A treatment of low-speed aerodynamics, covering both theory and computational techniques, first published in 2001.