OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aeronautical Journal is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
NASA concept vehicles and the engineering of advanced air mobility aircraft	44
Review of microwave techniques used in the manufacture and fault detection of aircraft composites	25
AeroVR: An immersive visualisation system for aerospace design and digital twinning in virtual reality	21
Multidisciplinary conceptual design for a hybrid-electric commuter aircraft	17
Multidisciplinary design optimisation of a fully electric regional aircraft wing with active flow control technology	17
Rotorcraft systems for urban air mobility: A reality check	17
Gust load alleviation for flexible aircraft using discrete-time preview control	16
Prediction of aircraft engine emissions using ADS-B flight data	16
New flight trajectory optimisation method using genetic algorithms	16
Towards a new design with generic modeling and adaptive control of a transformable quadrotor	15
Aircraft sequencing and scheduling in TMAs under wind direction uncertainties	14
Cooperative guidance law for intercepting a hypersonic target with impact angle constraint	14
Predicting the fuel flow rate of commercial aircraft via multilayer perceptron, radial basis function and ANFIS artificial neural networks	13
Autonomous and cooperative control of UAV cluster with multi-agent reinforcement learning	13
Reviewing the impacts of climate change on air transport operations	13
Propulsion system integration for a first-generation hydrogen civil airliner?	13
Progress in interlaminar toughening of aerospace polymer composites using particles and non-woven veils	13
Estimation of aerodynamic parameters near stall using maximum likelihood and extreme learning machine-based methods	12
CFD study of oil-jet gear interaction flow phenomena in spur gears	11
Effects of pylon geometry on mixing enhancement in a scramjet pylon-cavity flameholder	11
An estimation method for the fuel burn and other performance characteristics of civil transport aircraft in the cruise. Part 1 fundamental quantities and governing relations for a general atmosphere	11
High-fidelity aerodynamic modeling of an aircraft using OpenFoam – application on the CRJ700	11
Lyapunov-based Robust Adaptive Configuration of the UAS-S4 Flight Dynamics Fuzzy Controller	10
Improving real-time drone detection for counter-drone systems	10
Prediction of aircraft estimated time of arrival using machine learning methods	10

Development of a fire detection and suppression system for a smart air cargo container	10
Effect of fuels, aromatics and preparation methods on seal swell	10
The vibration suppression of solar panel based on smart structure	9
Development of ground vibration test based flutter emulation technique	9
Effects of forebody boundary layer on the performance of a submerged inlet	8
Impact of tank gravimetric efficiency on propulsion system integration for a first-generation hydrogen civil airliner	8
Supporting multi-point fan design with dimension reduction	8
Enabling robust and accurate navigation for UAVs using real-time GNSS precise point positioning and IMU integration	8
An estimation method for the fuel burn and other performance characteristics of civil transport aircraft during cruise: part 2, determining the aircraft’s characteristic parameters	7
Air pollutant emissions from aircraft landing and take-off cycles at Chinese airports	7
Sensor fault detection and reconstruction system for commercial aircrafts	6
Novel second-order sliding mode guidance law with an impact angle constraint that considers autopilot lag for intercepting manoeuvering targets	6
An expert system framework to support aircraft accident and incident investigations	6
Enhanced backstepping control for an unconventional quadrotor under external disturbances	6
Neuroadaptive output-feedback trajectory tracking control for a stratospheric airship with prescribed performance	6
Fuel burn evaluation of a transonic strut-braced-wing regional aircraft through multipoint aerodynamic optimisation	6
Multitarget allocation strategy based on adaptive SA-PSO algorithm	5
Cooperative guidance for active defence based on line-of-sight constraint under a low-speed ratio	5
Applications and classifications of unmanned aerial vehicles: A literature review with focus on multi-rotors	5
A comparative study of conventional and tri-lobed stratospheric airships	5
Improvements in learning to control perched landings	5
Low-visibility commercial ground operations: An objective and subjective evaluation of a multimodal display	5
Comparison of structural model reduction methods applied to a large-deformation wing box	5
A generalised force equivalence-based modelling method for a dry wind-tunnel flutter test system	5
Vector field path following of a full-wing solar-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) landing based on Dubins path: a lesson from multiple landing failures	5
Kinematic characteristics of longitudinal double folding wings	5
Realisation and testing of novel fully articulated bird-inspired flapping wings for efficient and agile UAVs	5
Handling qualities of fixed-pitch, variable-speed multicopters for urban air mobility	5
Synthesis of an active flutter suppression system in the transonic domain using a computational model	5
Reinforcement learning-based radar-evasive path planning: a comparative analysis	5
Future aircraft concepts and design methods	5
Analysis and modelling of airport resilience, robustness, and vulnerability: impact of COVID-19 pandemic disease	5
Bilevel programming model and algorithms for flight gate assignment problem	5
A semi-analytical approach for flutter analysis of a high-aspect-ratio wing	5
Turbo-electric propulsive fuselage aircraft BLI benefits: A design space exploration using an analytical method	5
Effect of chordwise deformation on propulsive performance of flapping wings in forward flight	5
Uncertainty analysis and robust shape optimisation for laminar flow aerofoils	5
Wing component allocation for a morphing variable span of tapered wing using finite element method and topology optimisation – application to the UAS-S4	5
Relative rotor phasing for multicopter vibratory load minimisation	5
Energy acquisition of a small solar UAV using dynamic soaring	4
Design and development of a backstepping controller autopilot for fixed-wing UAVs	4
Effects of alternating elliptical chamber on jet impingement heat transfer in vane leading edge under different cross-flow conditions	4
Dynamic responses due to the Dryden gust of an autonomous quadrotor UAV carrying a payload	4
Mechanical properties of UN-5100 envelope material for stratospheric airship	4
Model for sectional leading-edge vortex lift for the prediction of rotating samara seeds performance	4
A framework for enhanced decision-making in aircraft conceptual design optimisation under uncertainty	4
Stabilisation, tracking and disturbance rejection control design for the UAS-S45 Bálaam	4
Flight Characteristics with Different Supercooled Large Droplet Ice Configurations	4
Flow simulation of the flight manoeuvres of a large transport aircraft with load alleviation	4
Metaheuristic data fitting methods to estimate Weibull parameters for wind speed data: a case study of Hasan Polatkan Airport	4

Estimating the required number of Harbour Pilots to support airline operations of a single pilot commercial aircraft at a UK regional airport	4
Research on the design of smart morphing long-endurance UAVs	4
A novel optimal route planning algorithm for searching on the sea	4
Propulsive jet aerodynamics and aeroacoustics	4
Real-time formation control and obstacle avoidance algorithm for fixed-wing UAVs	4
Development of an actuated corrugated laminate for morphing structures	4
Flow field reconstruction method based on array neural network	3
Numerical study of geometric morphing wings of the 1303 UCAV	3
Traffic conflict reduction based on distributed stochastic task allocation	3
Time-domain non-linear aeroelastic analysis via a projection-based reduced-order model	3
Aeroengine transient performance simulation integrated with generic heat soakage and tip clearance model	3
Aileron size and location to minimise induced drag during rolling-moment production at zero rolling rate	3
Off-equilibrium linearisation-based nonlinear control of turbojet enginese with sum-of-squares programming	3
Enhanced cruise range prediction for narrow-body turbofan commercial aircraft based on QAR data	3
Low-fidelity method for rapid aerostructural optimisation and design-space exploration of planar wings	3
Experimental analysis of flow instability detection in a centrifugal compressor using variational mode decomposition	3
A sizing-based approach to evaluate hypersonic demonstrators: demonstrator-carrier constraints	3
Impact of aromatic species selection and micro and bulk properties of alternative fuels on atomisation	3
Multi-platform app-embedded model for hybrid air-breathing rocket-cycle engine in hypersonic atmospheric ascent	3
On the multi-fidelity approach in surrogate-based multidisciplinary design optimisation of high-aspect-ratio wing aircraft	3
The flight efficiency analysis on the Multi-Arrival Route Point Merge System	3
Infrared signal of the lobed mixer with external air mixing	3
Body-force and mean-line models for the generation of axial compressor sub-idle characteristics	3
Helicopter Handling Qualities: A study in pilot control compensation	3
Review of vortex lattice method for supersonic aircraft design	3
Transonic industrial wind tunnel testing in the 2020s	3
Flight control strategy for jet transport in severe clear-air turbulence based on flight data mining	3
Finite-element modelling of NiTi shape-memory wires for morphing aerofoils	3
The state of the art and operational scenarios for urban air mobility with unmanned aircraft	3
Conceptual design and numerical studies of active flow control aerofoil based on shape-memory alloy and macro fibre composites	3
Enhancing the take-off performance of hypersonic vehicles using the improved chimp optimisation algorithm	3
Dual-solver hybrid computational approaches for design and analysis of vertical lift vehicles	3
Research on parameter matching characteristics of pneumatic launch systems based on co-simulation	3
Environmental and techno-economic evaluation for hybrid-electric propulsion architectures	3
Optimisation of interval management – speed planning using SMPSO	3
Interaction effects on the conversion corridor of tiltrotor aircraft	3
Stability and dynamical analysis of whirl flutter in a gimballed rotor-nacelle system with a smooth nonlinearity – CORRIGENDUM	2
Estimation of longitudinal aerodynamic parameters using recurrent neural network	2
ATCO radar training assessment and flight efficiency: the correlation between trainees’ scores and fuel consumption in real-time simulations	2
The formulation of the RANS equations for supersonic and hypersonic turbulent flows	2
A fuzzy model to predict the mechanical characteristics of friction stir welded joints of aluminum alloy AA2014-T6	2
System identification of cropped delta UAVs from flight test methods using particle Swarm-Optimisation-based estimation	2
Research on improvement and optimisation of modelling method of China’s civil aircraft market demand forecast model	2
High-precision controller using LMI method for three-axis flexible satellite attitude stabilisation	2
Automatic regime detection for Rotor Track and Balance using vibration only sensor data	2
Aerodynamic study of single corrugated variable-camber morphing aerofoil concept	2
Research on lateral dynamics safety margins of carrier-based aircraft arresting	2
A practical design approach for a single-stage sounding rocket to reach a target altitude	2
Applied Nonsingular Astrodynamics: Optimal Low-Thrust Orbit Transfer J. A. Kéchichian Cambridge University Press, University Printing House, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 8BS, UK. 2018. xvii; 461 pp	2
Analysis and optimisation design on damping orifice of oleo-pneumatic landing gear	2
Morphing Wing Technologies: Large Commercial Aircraft and Civil Helicopters Edited by A. Concilio et al. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. 2	2
A deep reinforcement learning-based approach to onboard trajectory generation for hypersonic vehicles	2
Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry – second edition Edited by P. E. Irving and C. Soutis Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. 2020. xi	2
Application of wavy leading edge to enhance winglet aerodynamic performance	2
Moving-mass-based station keeping of stratospheric airships	2
Influence of clearance and structural coupling parameters on shimmy stability of landing gear	2
Reduced-order model for efficient generation of a subsonic missile’s aerodynamic database	2
Safety-II: Building safety capacity and aeronautical decision-making skills to commit better mistakes	2
Numerical and experimental testing of aircraft tyre impact during landing	2
Certification considerations for the configuration of a hydrogen-fuelled aeroplane	2
Prescribed-time cooperative guidance with time delay	2
Parameter optimisation of a carrier-based UAV drawbar based on strain fatigue analysis	2
Detection and recognition of UA targets with multiple sensors	2
Additive Manufacturing for the Aerospace Industry Edited by F. Froes and R. Boyer Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. 2019. xvi; 465 pp. Illustrated. £175 ISBN 978-	2
Design and performance quantification of VTOL systems for a canard aircraft	2
Experimental and numerical heat transfer from vortex-injection interaction in scramjet flowfields	2
Design space optimisation of an unmanned aerial vehicle submerged inlet through the formulation of a data-fusion-based hybrid model	2
Synthetic photometric landmarks used for absolute navigation near an asteroid	2
Neural network-based velocity-controllable UAV flocking	2
Unsteady simulations of migration and deposition of fly-ash particles in the first-stage turbine of an aero-engine	2
Calculating block time and consumed fuel for an aircraft model	2
Analysis of bird situation around airports using avian radar	2
Three-dimensional finite-time guidance law based on sliding mode adaptive RBF neural network against a highly manoeuvering target	2
Obstacle avoidance in V-shape formation flight of multiple fixed-wing UAVs using variable repulsive circles	2
Operational concept and validation of a new airport low-level wind information system	2
A deep learning-based approach to time-coordination entry guidance for multiple hypersonic vehicles	2
Design of simulation-based pilot training systems using machine learning agents	2
Performance of a turbojet engine with fluidic thrust vectoring	2
Numerical modelling of thin anisotropic membrane under dynamic load	2