Growing concerns about the rising costs of fuel as well as environmental issues have led to multiple innovative and futuristic aircraft concepts to tackle these issues. Turboelectric Distributed Propulsion (TeDP) and ...

Military aircraft propulsion systems represent one of the most challenging sectors of jet engine design: Operating at an extremely variable environment strongly influenced by aircraft aerodynamics, these engines should ...

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been shown as a promising technique to increase the channel randomness for secret key generation (SKG) in low-entropy channels (e.g., static or line-of-sight (LoS)), without ...

The main purpose of this research is to develop a set of econometric Air-Rail competition models which are sufficiently sensitive to measure the effects upon demand of policy decisions, with regard to such variables as ...

For podded underwing configurations, the goal of specific fuel consumption reduction has led to engine designs with larger fan diameters and higher bypass ratios to increase propulsive efficiency. As a consequence of this ...

The proposal of increasingly complex and innovative space endeavours poses growing demands for mission designers. In order to meet the established requirements and constraints while maintaining a low fuel cost, the use ...

Single impact perforation shots are well understood for various target materials and different shaped projectiles. Although considered a rare case, localised multi-impacts are not well understood as they involve both ...

The recent development of feature extraction algorithms with multiple layers in machine learning and pattern recognition has inspired many applications in multivariate statistical process monitoring. In this work, two ...

Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of metal Additively Manufactured (AM) components is crucial for the identification of any potential defects. Ultrasonic testing is recognised for its volumetric imaging capability in metallic ...

Diffusional approaches for fabrication of multi-layered Ru-modified bond coats for thermal barrier coatings have been developed via low activity chemical vapor deposition and high activity pack aluminization. Both processes ...