Special Issue on Aerospace and Naval Propulsion

Editorial Special Issue “Combustion and Propulsion”

The increasing demand for socially and environmentally sustainable development requires appropriate use of energy resources, particularly in the transportation of people and goods. The main source of energy for propulsion is based on the use of fuels, mainly of fossil origin but increasingly produced from renewable sources. Therefore, combustion processes play a key role in the efficiency of en...

Special issue on advanced control of aerospace vehicles

The control of aerospace vehicles, such as manned/ unmanned airplanes, hypersonic vehicles, satellites, and missiles, has attracted a great amount of interest in recent years owing to the rapid development of potential application areas. Modern aerospace vehicles often employ large, complex, and lightweight structures, which result in these space structures being extremely flexible and having l...

Nuclear Naval Propulsion

The largest experience in operating nuclear power plants has been in nuclear naval propulsion, particularly aircraft carriers and submarines. This accumulated experience may become the basis of a proposed new generation of compact-sized nuclear power plants designs. The mission for nuclear powered submarines is being redefined in terms of signal intelligence gathering and special operations. Th...

Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

It is important to resolve the issue of whether extra infonnation can help assign the probability for failure of a pilot or Naval Flight Officer (NFO) in some phase of flight training. This assigned probability for failure could be based simply on empirical data gathered over some relatively long period of time. However, if scores from selection tests, personality tests, vision exams, psychomot...

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