Commercial air transportation growth and airline deregulation in recent years have resulte traffic volume beyond the capacity of existing airports and air traffic control. This excess traffic often results in delays and ...

Traditionally, most fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft have been powered by internal combustion engines that consume hydrocarbon fuels. Only in a few exceptional designs, such as solar powered air-vehicles, are attempts ...

A System-of-Systems design methodology is used to evaluate tradeoffs in the design of a guided bullet system for mortar defense. Guided bullets were designed to match the calibers of four different existing auto guns and ...

Sonic boom modelling is multidisciplinary involving aerodynamic and aero-acoustics analyses. The near field pressure signature is first obtained using either linearized or non-linear methods. This is then converted into a ...

Design of any complex system entails many objectives to reach and constraints to satisfy. This multi–objective nature of the problem ensures that the technology solution is always a compromise between conflicting objectives. ...

This paper summarizes and introduces the Collaborative Visualization Environment (CoVE) at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)at Georgia Tech. The CoVE is an advanced visualization facility consisting of an 18 ...

Supersonic business jet design is a complex process to balance highly stringent environmenta requirements in addition to the usual performance measures. Conceptual aircraft designs obtained by employing simplified analyses ...

This paper provides a method of preliminary design for a two-dimensional, mixed compression, two-ramp supersonic inlet to maximize total pressure recovery and match the mass flow demand of the engine. For an on-design ...

A design process is formulated and implemented for the taxonomy selection and system-level optimization of an Efficient Multi-Mach Aircraft Current Technology Concept and an Advanced Concept. Concept space exploration of ...

Aerobatic aircraft design and simulation is challenging as these aircraft need to fly at any angle of attack and sideslip angle (full-envelope aerodynamics). They fly at velocities close to stall speed, all the way up to ...