Oxygen–Methane Torch Ignition System for Aerospace Applications

Artificial Immune System Approaches for Aerospace Applications

Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) combine a priori knowledge with the adapting capabilities of biological immune systems to provide a powerful alternative to currently available techniques for pattern recognition, modeling, design, and control. Immunology is the science of built-in defense mechanisms that are present in all living beings to protect against external attacks. A biological immune sy...

Distributed Ignition Using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs) with Applications in Aerospace and Future Automotive Engines

Ignition characteristics of SWCNTs with an ordinary camera flash are reported here. The ultimate goal of the work is to use SWCNT or other nanostructured materials as a means for distributed ignition in liquid rocket fuel sprays and homogeneous-charged compression ignition (HCCI) engines. The idea was originally proposed by the author in April 2003 and patented after initial investigation. Base...

On Efficiency of an Unstructured Grid Generation Method for Aerospace Applications

Polymer and ceramic nanocomposites for aerospace applications

This paper reviews the potential of polymer and ceramic matrix composites for aerospace/space vehicle applications. Special, unique and multifunctional properties arising due to the dispersion of nanoparticles in ceramic and metal matrix are briefly discussed followed by a classification of resulting aerospace applications. The paper presents polymer matrix composites comprising majority of aer...

High Performance Fortran for aerospace applications

This paper focuses on the use of High Performance Fortran (HPF) for important classes of algorithms employed in aerospace applications. HPF is a set of Fortran extensions designed to provide users with a high-level interface for programming data parallel scienti c applications, while delegating to the compiler/runtime system the task of generating explicitly parallel message-passing programs. W...