Abstract: This paper describes six final year undergraduate research projects supported by a collaboration between the Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and Reaction Engines (RE), a UK aerospace company. The collaboration ...

Abstract: Air breathing rocket engines require turbomachinery and ducting that is substantially lighter than that used in ground-based or aerospace gas turbines. In order to reduce the weight of the axial compressor, the design of ...

Abstract: Ducted liftfans provide greater hovering efficiency to electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft than open propellers of equal disk area. Liftfans are designed with minimized length to limit propulsor weight added ...

Abstract: The application of machine learning to aerospace problems faces a particular challenge. For successful learning, a large amount of good quality training data is required, typically tens of thousands of cases. However, due ...