Journal of Aerospace Engineering
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EISSN:1943-5525|ISSN:0893-1321|Disc:The Journal of Aerospace Engineering promotes the implementation and development of space and aerospace technologies and their transfer to other civil engineering applications. Topics of interest include aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, wind tunnel testing of buildings and structures, aerospace structures and materials, advanced composite materials, dynamics and control, real-time data acquisition, space engineering and construction, lunar base construction, field and remote sensing, and robotics|Priority:6|Publisher:American Society of Civil Engineers|
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Improved Reinforcement Learning–Based Method for Emergency Mission Planning to Remove Space Debris
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A mission planning method with an online optimization mechanism based on improved reinforcement learning was proposed to address the task planning problem of space debris removal tools utilizing stochastic maneuvering ... -
Homotopy Method with Initial Costate Evaluation for Low-Thrust Fuel-Optimal Homoclinic Halo Orbit Transfer
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The problem of transferring a spacecraft between Halo orbits around Sun–Earth libration points using low-thrust propulsion is considered in this paper. The complete dynamics is established using Pontryagin’s maximum principle ... -
Design, Modeling, and Ground Test of a Tethered CubeSat with a Rotational Net
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Tethered CubeSats are one of the main techniques used in active space debris removal. In this work, a tethered CubeSat was designed for space debris removal using a rotational deployment of the net structure. Firstly, the ... -
Virtual Frequency Fusion Technique: Detecting Multiple Damages via Broadband Lamb Wave Field Using Scanning Laser Vibrometry
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This article presents an efficient frequency fusion method by virtual acquisition of multifrequency guided wave velocity data for robust and accurate localization of multiple damages in plate-like structures. Lamb waves ... -
Low-Speed Performance Analysis of Double Swept Waverider with Wing Dihedral
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The double swept waverider offers superior performances in subsonic states while retaining a high lift-to-drag (L/D) ratio in hypersonic state, thus overcoming some deficiencies of the traditional waverider. However, it ... -
Aerodynamic and Flow Characteristics of a Bidirectional S-Shaped Airfoil
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Bidirectional axial-flow turbomachines are used in a wide range of applications. Despite this, little research has been conducted to understand the flow characteristics of bidirectional airfoils, particularly S-shaped ... -
Influence and Mechanism of Coflow Jet Airfoil Parameters in Subsonic Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Many studies have focused on the application and mechanism of coflow jet (CFJ) flow control technique in incompressible flow. However, the influence of CFJ parameters in subsonic flow is still uncertain. Five major CFJ ... -
Incremental Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Aircraft Attitude Tracking
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)An incremental nonlinear model predictive control (INMPC) strategy is developed in this paper for aircraft attitude tracking control under external disturbances. To reduce the dependency on accurate system dynamics, an ... -
Attitude Control Method for Liquid-Filled Flexible Spacecraft Based on Wave-Based Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A spacecraft often consists of a main rigid body, flexible appendages, and liquid loads such as fuel. Precise positioning and fast stabilization are crucial, but the complex interactions among rigid, flexible, and liquid ... -
Design, Analysis, and Optimization of Negative Stiffness in a Kresling-Origami Rod-Hinged Truss
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Negative stiffness is a unique mechanical phenomenon that arises during the elastic snap-through process after structural instability. It promotes motion, making it particularly advantageous in various specific applications ... -
Single-Pass Imaging Planning with a Hybrid Genetic Tabu Search Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellites
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Constellations of agile satellites can perform more tasks with fewer resources than can conventional satellites. However, for high-density targets in complex tasks, pairing satellites and targets in each orbit is a challenging ... -
Fuzzy Adaptive Antidisturbance Control Method for a Class of Lateral Thrust–Aerodynamic Force Composite Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper investigates the problem of lateral thrust–aerodynamic force composite control for a class of hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) suffering from time-varying actuator failures and associated multisource uncertainty. ... -
Rotating Deorbit with Constant Thrust for Tethered Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Tethered towing is viewed as a promising debris removal method, with collision avoidance with debris posing the key challenge. A novel orbit transfer scheme, incorporating spin-up maneuver, rotating flight, and momentum ... -
Optimal Impulsive Formation Reconfiguration near Halo Orbits Using Geometric Configuration Invariants
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper focuses on the relative motion and optimal impulsive formation reconfiguration near halo orbits. By applying the Floquet theorem, the time-varying system is simplified through a coordinate transformation, followed ... -
Fluid–Thermal–Structural Interactions on a Supersonic Two-Dimensional Intake
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study aims to enhance the verification database for fluid–thermal–structural interaction (FTSI) experiments and develop a comprehensive methodology for parameter measurement in such tests. A complex S-shaped wedge ... -
Finite Modal Vibration Control and Actuator/Sensor Analysis for Rigid Center–Flexible Appendage Satellites
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper proposes a novel vibration control method for rigid center–flexible appendage satellites considering actuator/sensor deployments. Initially, we derive the satellite model in planar motion and analyze the impact ... -
Experimental Study of the Rotor–Arm Interaction Noise in Single and Contra-Rotating Rotors of eVTOL Aircraft
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The installation effects of arms connected to single and contra-rotating rotors of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are of great importance for noise radiation in the far field. In this study, ... -
Enabling Autonomous Formation Flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Two-Stage Switching Control
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper reports on in-flight tests conducted to evaluate a method aimed at controlling the formation of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a leader-follower configuration. The study introduces a two-stage ... -
Effect of the Leading-Edge Tubercles on the Aerodynamic Performance of Transonic Cascades under High Static Pressure Rise
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Under high static pressure rise conditions, flow separation in transonic compressor cascades is severe, exacerbating the performance degradation of the compressor cascades. Biomimetic flow control techniques, as a category ... -
Space-Based Noncooperative Orbit Determination Considering Observation Platform Position Error
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The enhancement of space-based space situational awareness capability is crucial for coping with the increasingly crowded space environment due to the unique advantageous observation conditions, which requires the improvement ...