OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Aircraft 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Flow Control Devices for Aeroacoustic Noise Suppression in Cavity Flow	16
Mixed H2/H∞ Control for Autonomous Quadrotor Landing via Linear Matrix Inequality Optimization	14
Nonlinear Multibody Modeling of Flexible Aircraft with Flared Hinged Wingtips	12
Energy-Harvesting Performance of an Aircraft Propeller	12
Effect of Angle of Attack on Propeller Aeroacoustics at Positive and Negative Thrust	11
Open-Source Framework for Sizing Hybrid and Electric General Aviation Aircraft	10
System Identification for Small Flying-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Using Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Flight Data	10
Numerical Design Studies on the Roll Stability of a Multi-Delta-Wing Configuration	9
Induced-Strain Actuators for Morphing of Multi-Element Airfoils	9
Potential for Energy Recovery from Boundary-Layer Ingesting Actuator Disk Propulsion	8
Numerical Modeling of Aircraft Fire: Postcrash Fire	8
Aeroelastic System Identification for Flutter Prediction via Multi-Output Autoregressive Modeling	8
Comparison of Overwing and Underwing Nacelle Aeropropulsion Optimization for Subsonic Transport Aircraft	8
Optimization of Lift-Plus-Cruise Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft with Electrified Propulsion	8
Announcements and Acknowledgments	7
Steady and Unsteady Hover Test of a Lift Compounding Rotorcraft	7
Transonic Flutter Dips of the AGARD 445.6 Wing	7
Unsteady Propeller Wake Interference on Wing in Tractor Configuration at Low-Reynolds-Number Condition	7
Experimental Aerodynamic Analysis of a QuadPlane Unmanned Aircraft System	7
Optimal Mission Profile for Low-Boom Supersonic Aircraft	7
Eigenvalue Sensitivity Computations for Linear Stability Theory	6
Credibility-Based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Hybrid and Fully Electric Aircraft	6
2025 AIAA Journal of Aircraft Editorial	6
Exploration of a Low-Speed, Flapped, Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow Airfoil	6
Implementation of Fuel-Saving Relaxed Climb Procedure	6

Design Optimization of Rear-Fuselage Boundary-Layer Ingestion Shrouded Propulsor	6
An Enhanced Jig-Shape Approach to Lifting Propeller Design	6
Metamodeling Approach for Wing Structural Sizing of Box-Wing Aircraft	5
Impact of Phase Offset on the Flowfields Downstream of Synchronized Propellers	5
Fire Reaction of Carbon Epoxy Composite Laminates at Small and Large Scales	5
Machine Learning Models for Multirotor Performance Prediction	5
Minimum Trim Drag for a Three-Surface Supersonic Transport Aircraft	5
Ice Shape Convergence in Multistep Ice Accretion Simulations	5
Effect of Partial Ground and Partial Ceiling on Propeller Performance	5
Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Design Through Metrics of Survivability	5
Improvement of Icing Simulation with Novel Ice Crystal Sticking Model	5
Transonic Corrections for the Unsteady Compressible Source and Doublet Panel Method	5
Plasma Gurney Flap Flight Control at Low Angle of Attack	4
High-Lift Aerodynamics of Integrated Distributed Propulsion Systems with Thrust Vectoring	4
Fluid–Structure Coupled Analysis of Maneuver Load Alleviation on a Large Transport Aircraft	4
Geometrically Nonlinear Coupled Adjoint Aerostructural Optimization of Natural-Laminar-Flow Strut-Braced Wing	4
HLPW-4: Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation and Lattice–Boltzmann Technology Focus Group Workshop Summary	4
System Identification of Unmanned Air Systems at Texas A&M University	4
Aerodynamic Performance Benefits of Over-the-Wing Distributed Propulsion for Hybrid-Electric Transport Aircraft	4
Aero-Propulsive Modeling for Propeller Aircraft Using Flight Data	4
Overview of System Identification Tool Advancements at Systems Technology, Incorporated	4
Control-Oriented Modeling for Flexible Aircraft	4
Flight-Test System Identification Techniques and Applications for Small, Low-Cost, Fixed-Wing Aircraft	4
Design and Sizing of an Electrified Lift-Plus-Cruise Ducted Fan Aircraft	3
Assessment of Potential Commercial Success of Business Jets with Natural Laminar Flow	3
Fuel Cell Hybrid-Electric Aircraft: Design, Operational, and Environmental Impact	3
Experimental Investigation of the Active Flow Control over a Cranked-Delta Wing	3
Including Blade Elasticity into Frequency-Domain Propeller Whirl Flutter Analysis	3
Actuator Surface Modeling of Rotors at the Ship–Helicopter Dynamic Interface	3
Piezoelectric-Actuator De-Icing Array Design Based on Structural Vibration Modes	3
Fleet Design Optimization of Package Delivery Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Considering Operations	3
Level-Set Mass-Conservative Front-Tracking Technique for Multistep Simulations of In-Flight Ice Accretion	3
Propeller Rotation Effects on Pitching Moment for Transport Aircraft with Conventional Tail	3
Structural Optimization of a Large-Scale 3D-Printed High-Altitude Propeller Blade with Experimental Validation	3
Solid-State Electroaerodynamic Aircraft Design Using Signomial Programming	3
Modeling Aircraft Fuel Jettison Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics on Finite-Volume Meshes	3
Aerodynamic Stability Derivative Calculations Using the Compressible Source and Doublet Panel Method	3
Maximizing Lift-to-Drag and Thrust-to-Drag Ratios for Trimmed Hypersonic Vehicles	3
Uncertainty Quantification of the ONERA 7A Rotor Performance and Loads Using Comprehensive Analysis	3
Design Exploration of Transonic Airfoils for Natural and Hybrid Laminar Flow Control Applications	3
Experimental Investigation of the Coupling Process of Laminar Wings at Their Tips	3
Predicting Transonic Buffet Onset for the Boeing Transonic Truss-Braced Wing Aircraft	3
Numerical Study of Skipping Motion of Blended-Wing–Body Aircraft Ditching on Calm/Wavy Water	3
Control Authority of a Single-Surface Parafoil with Bleed-Air Spoilers	3
Influence of Stitch Angle on the Flexural Response of Composite Structures	2
Application of the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Process to Generate Stochastic Vertical Wind Profiles	2
Experimental Results for a Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoil in a Low-Turbulence Wind Tunnel	2
Pseudospectral-Method-Based Framework for Rotorcraft Stability and Trim Analysis	2
Terrain Envelope for Landing Stability of a Multirotor UAV with Adaptive Landing Gear	2
Advances and Modern Applications of Frequency-Domain Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification	2

Comparison of Data-Driven Approaches to Rotorcraft Store Separation Modeling	2
Investigation of Aerodynamic Support Interference for Testing a Semispan T Tail Aircraft Model	2
Neural-Network-Based Model for Trailing-Edge Flap Loads in Preliminary Aircraft Design	2
Massive Graphical Processing Unit Parallelization for Multirotor Computational Fluid Dynamics	2
Scale Effects in Wind Tunnel Testing: Extrapolation of the Drag Coefficient	2
Three-Dimensional Aeromechanical Analysis of Lift Offset Coaxial Rotors: A Helios Test Case	2
Zonal Safety and Particular Risk Analysis for Early Aircraft Design	2
Two Aerodynamic Mid-Fidelity Approaches on a Distributed Propulsion Wing	2
Experimental Investigation and Numerical Modeling of Noise Generated by Installed Pusher Propellers	2
Conceptual Design of Aircraft System Routing Architectures Using a Bio-Inspired Algorithm	2
Macro- and Mesoscopic Design for Cabin Door Pretightened Fabric Rubber Seal Structure	2
Certification-Constrained Vertical Tail Sizing and Power Split Optimization for Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft	2
Numerical Investigations on Low-Speed Aerodynamic Characteristics of Generic Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Configurations	2
Propulsion–Airframe Integration for Conceptual Redesign of a Low-Boom Supersonic Transport	2
Minimum-Drag Fault-Tolerant Aircraft Control Allocation via Online Lifting Line Calculation	2
Steady Solutions for Supersonic Transport Takeoffs with a Variable Noise Reduction System	2
Numerical Investigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launch from Military Transport Aircrafts	2
Line-Based High-Order Hybrid Scheme on Unstructured Grids for Compressible Flows	2
Unsteady Effects of Blowing over Actuated Surfaces Using Phase-Locked Particle Image Velocimetry	2
Holistic Approach for Aircraft Trajectory Optimization Using Optimal Control	2
Introduction to the Advances in Aircraft System Identification from Flight Test Data Virtual Collection	2
Theodorsen’s and Garrick’s Flutter Calculations: Revisited	2
Forecasting the Operational Lifetime of Battery-Powered Electric Aircraft	2
Correlation of High-Speed Tiltrotor Stability Predictions with Test Data and Parametric Study	2
Introduction to the Selected Papers from NATO AVT-338 Specialists Meeting on Advanced Wind Tunnel Boundary Simulation II Virtual Collection	2
Aerodynamic Efficiency Enhancement of Delta Wings for Micro Air Vehicles Using Shape-Optimization	2