Aerospace

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Advanced Aircraft Technology (2nd Edition)

edited by Jun Huang

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 650 | Submission Open

Keywords: multidisciplinary design optimization; green energy aircraft; distributed electric propulsion; new-concept aerodynamic configuration; survivability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)

Design, Characterization and Operations of Lighter-than-Air Flying Vehicles

edited by

Carlo E. D. Riboldi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: lighter than air; airship; design; UAV; unmanned; sizing; hydrogen; helium; energy harvesting; mission design; MDAO; dynamic modeling; buoyancy; characterization; wind tunnel; testing; simulation; control; guidance; stabilization; electronics; actuators; motors; docking; maneuvers; ground infrastructure; land infrastructure; airship operations; operation research; operation cost; cost of manufacture; production cost; profitability; cost model; air transport economics; air transport system; airspace; case study; experimental campaigns

New Trends in Aviation Development 2024–2025

edited by

Miroslav Kelemen

Peter Korba

and

Wenjiang Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1282 | Submission Open

Keywords: aeronautics and aerospace technologies; dual-use applications; aircraft design; maintenance and services; certification; UAV/UAS; photogrammetry and GIS; avionics; aeronautical meteorology; aerodynamics; vibroacoustic issues; space systems; sensors; application of superconducting technology in astronautics; numerical modelling; multicriteria decision processes; big data; aeronautics education and training; human factors and performance; reliability; safety and security; risk assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)

Laser Propulsion Science and Technology (2nd Edition)

edited by

John Sinko

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 831 | Submission Open

Keywords: beamed energy propulsion; debris removal; directed energy propulsion; laser ablation; laser arrays; laser debris removal; laser-electric propulsion; laser launch; laser momentum coupling; laser orbital debris removal; laser propellant; laser propulsion; laser sails; laser thermal coupling; laser thermal propulsion; laser thrusters; lightsails; microwave propulsion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)

Space Propulsion: Advances and Challenges (3rd Volume)

edited by

Kyun Ho Lee

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2759 | Submission Open

Keywords: space propulsion; chemical propulsion; electric propulsion; hybrid propulsion; solar sail propulsion; nuclear propulsion; spacecraft; rocket; launch vehicle; satellite; cubesat; deep space explorer

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)

Advances in Detonative Propulsion (2nd Edition)

edited by Yunfeng Liu and Zhiwu Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: oblique detonation engine; rotating detonation engine; pulsed detonation engine; shock-induced supersonic combustion; detonation-assisted scramjets; propulsive performance analysis; gaseous detonation; multiphase detonation

Challenges and Recent Advances in Model-Based Engineering for Aerospace

edited by

Fernando Mas

Anderson Luis Szejka

and

Osiris Canciglieri Junior

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open

Keywords: model-based engineering (MBE); model-based system engineering (MBSE); aerospace; knowledge-based engineering (KBE); digital twin (DT); ontology; semantics

Deicing and Anti-Icing of Aircraft (Volume IV)

edited by

Hirotaka Sakaue

and Xiaobin Shen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 40 | Submission Open

Keywords: deicing; anti-icing; ice accretion; ice adhesion; ice cohesion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Aeronautics)

Flow and Heat Transfer in Solid Rocket Motors

edited by Yang Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid rocket motor; complex flow and heat transfer; ablation mechanism; insulator; multiphase flow modeling; metal droplet behavior; design of combustion chamber and nozzle; combustion modeling; prediction of performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)

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