Aerospace and aviation technology

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.

Infrared Thermography in the Evaluation of Aerospace Composite Materials: Infrared Thermography to Composites provides an update on infrared thermography, a fast and reliable method for non-destructive evaluation of composite materials used in the aerospace field.

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

Soar Beyond Limits: Your Ultimate Guide to DronesImagine controlling the skies a world where your drone gracefully dances above treetops and captures breathtaking landscapes.

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

As UAV technology is rapidly evolving, a pervasive need for a thorough investigation of its full capabilities has come to the forefront.

Combining substantive information with hands-on activities, this book helps you integrate space science with other curricular areas.

Up-To-Date Coverage of Every Aspect of Commercial Aviation SafetyCompletely revised edition to fully align with current U.

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

Complete coverage of aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenanceAircraft Materials and Analysis addresses aircraft design, mechanical and structural factors in aviation, flight loads, structural integrity, stresses, properties of materials, compression, bending, and aircraft fatigue.

Compact enough to slip into your flight ease and comrehensive enough to ensure master, of the daily parlance of pilots, this handy reference clarifies nearly 3,000 essential acronyms, abbreviations, symbols, technical terms, and slang definitions used in aviation.

MEMS for automotive and aerospace applications reviews the use of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) in developing solutions to the unique challenges presented by the automotive and aerospace industries.

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

Close on the heels of the American public's early enthusiasm over the airplane came aviation stories for the young.

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.

Frente a un mundo que ha cambiado y que requiere un replanteamiento de los fundamentos, modelos y estrategias de la seguridad operacional y la gestión de los riesgos, este libro propone un modelo innovador para el análisis de accidentes que impacta de manera positiva y duradera en el sistema, y una guía para llevar adelante un cambio organizacional a partir del paradigma sistémico.

Starting in the mid-20th century, the idea of "e;improving"e; the race and prolonging life began to gain ground, and by the 1990s it materialized in a philosophy called "e;transhumanism"e;.

Starting in the mid-20th century, the idea of "e;improving"e; the race and prolonging life began to gain ground, and by the 1990s it materialized in a philosophy called "e;transhumanism"e;.

A partir de mediados del siglo XX la idea de "mejorar" la raza y prolongar la vida empezó a ganar terreno, y hacia la década de 1990 se materializó en un movimiento filosófico llamado "transhumanismo".

A partir de mediados del siglo XX la idea de "mejorar" la raza y prolongar la vida empezó a ganar terreno, y hacia la década de 1990 se materializó en un movimiento filosófico llamado "transhumanismo".

5G is a large scale leap, a new paradigm, a revolution.

5G is a large scale leap, a new paradigm, a revolution.

5G es un salto a gran escala, un nuevo paradigma, una revolución.

5G es un salto a gran escala, un nuevo paradigma, una revolución.

The book focuses on photonic devices and systems for space applications and critically reviews the most promising research advances in the field of photonic technologies, which may have a significant impact on the performance of space systems.

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 volume contains articles based on lectures given at the Workshop on Transition and Turbulence Control, hosted by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 8-10 December 2004.

The emerging technology of very inexpensive inertial sensors is available for navigation as never before.

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.