Friction stir welding (FSW) is an emerging manufacturing technology for aerospace structures. It will see widespread use in the future as it offers ways of creating lighter structures at lower manufacturing cost than traditional methods (riveting, adhesive bonding). Since its invention in 1991, FSW has known fast improvements and many studies have demonstrated its capability for joining a wide ...

Designing and developing new aerospace propulsion systems is time-consuming and expensive. Computational simulation is a promising means for alleviating this cost, but requires a flexible software simulation system capable of integrating advanced multidisciplinary and multifidelity analysis methods, dynamically constructing arbitrary simulation models, and distributing computationally complex t...

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a series of system-wide simulation upgrades made to the Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. The simulation system consists of a PCbased distributed simulation network comprised of a fixed-base full cockpit simulator and three additional pilot-based simulation stations. Modif...

the manner of spray the fuel has an important effect on stability and convenient mixture of fuel and oxidizer. swirl injectors because of formation of uniform spray cone and proper distribution of the fuel have been used in many rocket engines at aerospace industries. formation and development of air core in the interior stream of swirl injectors and simulation of them is complicated. double ba...

Designing and developing new aerospace propulsion systems is time-consuming and expensive. Computational simulation is a promising means for alleviating this cost, but requires a flexible software simulation system capable of integrating advanced multidisciplinary and multifidelity analysis methods, dynamically constructing arbitrary simulation models, and distributing computationally complex t...

Aerospace industry has been involved in virtual simulation for design and testing since the birth of virtual reality. Today this industry is showing a growing interest in the development of haptic-based maintenance training applications, which represent the most advanced way to simulate maintenance and repair tasks within a virtual environment by means of a visual-haptic approach. The goal is t...

This paper presents a rapid software prototyping environment, based on Matlab/Simulink, for realtime simulation and control of a mini-helicopter robot. The application of the environment is illustrated with a software-in-the-loop simulation example. The environment is integrated by own modules (mini-helicopter simulation model, navigation filter, multirate control, filters) and modules based on...

Yingjie Xu 1,*, Tenglong Gao 1, Jun Wang 2 and Weihong Zhang 1,* 1 Engineering Simulation and Aerospace Computing (ESAC), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China; [email protected] 2 Mechanics Unit (UME), ENSTA-ParisTech, Paris, 91761 Palaiseau, France; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] (Y.X.); [email protected] (W.Z.); Tel.: +86-29-8...