Aerodynamics, Flight Dynamics and Control of Advanced Air Mobility Vehicles
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). This special issue belongs to the section "Aeronautics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 6109
Special Issue Editors
Interests: flight mechanics and flying qualities; simulation and modelling of rigid and flexible aircraft; aircraft aerodynamics; formation flight; synthetic air data; aircraft identification; flight tests
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Government, academic, and industrial efforts work together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 set by the United Nations. To this aim, several advanced aircraft are expected to operate civil tasks (people or goods transport, surveillance, etc.) on regional routes, in suburban areas and in urban areas with the use of sustainable energy sources. Many challenges are addressed to advanced short-range aircraft (e.g., suburban and urban air mobility), such as vertical take-off and landing capabilities and unmanned operations. Structural and aerodynamic optimization are key aspects for greener regional aircraft, such as wings with greater aspect ratios and distributed electric propulsion. The integration of new propulsion systems and the adoption of novel aircraft architectures have a profound impact on aircraft dynamics (e.g., control and flying qualities), structural design (e.g., advanced materials, battery integration), avionics (e.g., system redundancy, sensors), etc. In the latter scenario, multi-disciplinary approaches are mandatory to design advanced air mobility vehicles as the process would rely on unconventional solutions.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality papers focused on outstanding research results in the fields of aerodynamics, flight dynamics, structural design, avionics, autonomous navigation and control solutions for advanced air mobility vehicles. Authors are, therefore, invited to submit contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Multi-disciplinary design process (e.g., considering aerodynamics, propulsion, avionics, structures) for advanced aircraft targeting the integration of hybrid or fully electric propulsion;
- Novel solutions for high aerodynamic efficiency;
- Aerodynamic design, numerical analysis, and experimental verification of novel aircraft architectures (e.g., distributed electric propulsion, boxed wing);
- Advanced aircraft aerodynamics on stability and control analysis;
- Simulation in a realistic environment (e.g., urban scenarios, wind effects, formation flight);
- Numerical and experimental evaluation of flying and handling qualities;
- Automatic formation control of piloted and autonomous aircraft;
- Identification methods for advanced aircraft (e.g., multi-rotor, lift + cruise);
- Autonomous control systems both for unmanned and supervised advanced aircraft;
- Path planning, aircraft control, and mission management;
- Control strategies (adaptive control, neural techniques, etc.) for transition from vertical to horizontal operations;
- Lighter-than-air vehicles;
- Automatic take-off and landing.
Dr. Angelo Lerro
Prof. Dr. Flavio J. Silvestre
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced air mobility
- multi-disciplinary design
- unmanned aircraft systems
- urban air mobility
- flight dynamics
- simulation
- control
- aerodynamics
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