Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (4)
- Aeronautical Vehicles (4)
- Aviation (3)
- Multi-Vehicle Systems and Air Traffic Control (3)
- Propulsion and Power (3)
-
- Aviation Safety and Security (2)
- Navigation, Guidance, Control and Dynamics (2)
- Other Aerospace Engineering (2)
- Structures and Materials (2)
- Systems Engineering and Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (2)
- Astrophysics and Astronomy (1)
- Aviation and Space Education (1)
- Education (1)
- Higher Education (1)
- Mechanical Engineering (1)
- Other Education (1)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Space Habitation and Life Support (1)
- Space Vehicles (1)
- The Sun and the Solar System (1)
- Urban Studies and Planning (1)
Articles 1 - 15 of 15
Full-Text Articles in Aerospace Engineering
Aiaa Design Build Fly Humanitarian Uav, Michael Finigian, Kyle Abbas, David Fryer, Kyle Bartholomew, Jacob Kaufman, William Ryan, Tyler Kwapniowski, Adam Witusik
Aiaa Design Build Fly Humanitarian Uav, Michael Finigian, Kyle Abbas, David Fryer, Kyle Bartholomew, Jacob Kaufman, William Ryan, Tyler Kwapniowski, Adam Witusik
Discovery Day - Prescott
Every year AIAA issues a challenge to any undergraduate universities willing to meet it: to build an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to mission and product characteristics. This year the UAVs are to carry two different payloads in four missions with varying objectives, take-off distances, flight times and flight distances. The two payloads are large plunger syringes and mock vaccine vial packages. The Embry-Riddle Prescott team has decided that the best way to approach these competitions is to split responsibilities evenly between four integrated product teams (IPTs); Aerodynamics, Structures, Propulsion and Missions. In the early stages of the design process, …
Reconnaissance And Documentation (Rad), Cayli Farias, Terra Gordon, Sharik Joseph, Julia Kjenstad, Michael Lauber, Dakota Ross, Logan Hill, Dominick Uzzardo, Richard Harold
Reconnaissance And Documentation (Rad), Cayli Farias, Terra Gordon, Sharik Joseph, Julia Kjenstad, Michael Lauber, Dakota Ross, Logan Hill, Dominick Uzzardo, Richard Harold
Discovery Day - Prescott
The Reconnaissance and Documentation (RAD) mission aims to utilize a Low Earth Orbit satellite using machine learning enabled image recognition and optical remote sensing to observe countries currently experiencing Stage Nine of the United Nations’ Ten Stages of Genocide. The primary objective of the RAD satellite, Leza, is to observe high-risk countries at adequate spatial and temporal resolutions to capture evidence of genocide. The secondary objective of Leza is to process images on-board, so flagged images serving as evidence may be distributed to proper authorities, the United Nations, and mainstream media outlets as soon as possible. Using remote sensing to …
Eaglenautics: Sae Aero West Design Competition Team, Steven Booth, Jessica Millard, Celin Rawther
Eaglenautics: Sae Aero West Design Competition Team, Steven Booth, Jessica Millard, Celin Rawther
Discovery Day - Prescott
Eaglenautics is an engineering club affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Every year, Eaglenautics participates in the SAE Aero West Design Competition. This competition challenges teams to design a competitive R/C scale aircraft from the ground up. Eaglenautics tackles this challenge by using a modified design-build-fly (DBF) process by adding a simulation step after the design step. Simulation software allows for a faster convergence to a design before the build process starts. Eaglenautics utilizes simulation programs like XFLR5 and OpenVSP to aid with the design of the aircraft to save time building multiple aircraft iterations. This process is especially helpful for …
Space Debris Characterization Using Machine Learning Methods, Anson Biggs, Ana Bader-Elenes
Space Debris Characterization Using Machine Learning Methods, Anson Biggs, Ana Bader-Elenes
Discovery Day - Prescott
Orbital debris is a form of pollution that is growing at an exponential pace and puts current and future space infrastructure at risk. Satellites are critical to military, commercial, and civil operations. Unfortunately, the space they occupy is increasingly becoming more crowded and dangerous, potentially leading to a cascade event that could turn orbit around the Earth into an unusable wasteland for decades proper mitigation is not introduced. Unfortunately, existing models employed by NASA rely on a dataset created from 2D images and are missing many crucial features required for correctly modeling the space debris environment. Our approach uses highresolution …
Team Keryx: Project Lifelink, Robert Belz-Templeman, Evan Hefflin, Jessica Millard, Ariana Anderson, Jacob Hindmarsh, Corey Washburn
Team Keryx: Project Lifelink, Robert Belz-Templeman, Evan Hefflin, Jessica Millard, Ariana Anderson, Jacob Hindmarsh, Corey Washburn
Discovery Day - Prescott
First responders such as wildland firefighters, search and rescue crews, and disaster relief workers often operate in cellular-service-denied environments. This lack of long-range communication channels greatly inhibits the spread of vital information. Project LifeLink is Team Keryx’s capstone project designed to solve this issue as well as meeting the course goals of AE 420/421. The course goals for AE 420/421 are to utilize the skills and knowledge obtained in prior classes to design, develop, build, and test an aircraft tailored to a specific challenge. The students will work together in an organized structure and process to prepare them for industry …
Proposal To Augment U.S. Army Lsa And Uars, Cameron Beard
Proposal To Augment U.S. Army Lsa And Uars, Cameron Beard
Discovery Day - Prescott
The U.S. Army currently has a gap in its aerial reconnaissance capabilities, with the OH-58D Kiowa completing its phase transition to the AH-64E. Since the Army has done away with its rotary-wing scout aircraft, it currently relies on the AH-64E attack helicopter (an aircraft not designed for such a role), in tandem with UAS RQ- 7Bs and MQ-1C Grey Eagle. These aircraft use the MUM-T (Manned-Unmanned Teaming) system, which allows AH-64E pilots to control the camera and weaponry of the drones while both aircraft are in flight. The draw back to this system lies in two categories; 1) the inability …
Tip Driven Rotor System, Kevin Allyas
Tip Driven Rotor System, Kevin Allyas
Discovery Day - Prescott
The Tip-Driven Rotor System (TDRS) Project is a product designed for KRyanCreative, LLC (KRC), as the basis of a Levitated Annular Rotor System (LARS) for commercial and tactical military vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles. Conceptually, this design will greatly increase power density and lift capacity over conventional shaft-centric helicopters. The design also enables variable rotational velocity control that can greatly expand the VTOL flight envelope. The LARS innovatively leverages electromagnetism and superconductive levitation in the transfer of energy from vehicle source to aerodynamic lifting surface. The benefits of LARS include: the reduction of wing tip vortices due to a …
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Based Heat Exchanger On The Martian, Sarah Guinn
Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Based Heat Exchanger On The Martian, Sarah Guinn
Discovery Day - Prescott
The use of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) in power cycles has been fairly new in the last decade. Due to this, there is a lack in research for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications. The purpose of this project is to utilize sCO2 as a working fluid and design and optimize a Brayton Cycle based heat exchanger on the Martian surface. Due to the lack of water on Mars, this research will provide a stronger analysis of planetary based drycooling processes in low atmospheric pressure and colder temperatures. We have been conducting an in-depth analysis of the heat exchanger by modeling …
Experimental Study On Compression And Shear Strength Of Cfrp, Joseph Gentile, Ethan Garber
Experimental Study On Compression And Shear Strength Of Cfrp, Joseph Gentile, Ethan Garber
Discovery Day - Prescott
The increasing use of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) in the aerospace industry requires a better understanding of its damage properties. Many modern aircraft under high loads are utilizing this material for their primary structures due to its high strength to weight ratio. However, CFRPs are sensitive to out-of-plane loading such as low-velocity impact and indentation. These damages can reduce the compressive strength significantly without leaving a visible mark on the surface, which is known as Barely Visible Impact Damage (BVID). The behavior and residual strength of CFRPs after impact damage under compressive loading are still not fully understood. Studies of …
Arizona Hyperloop: The Fifth Mode Of Transportation, Eleanor Pahl, Matthieu Rada
Arizona Hyperloop: The Fifth Mode Of Transportation, Eleanor Pahl, Matthieu Rada
Discovery Day - Prescott
Arizona Hyperloop is a coalition between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Arizona State University students competing in Elon Musk’s annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Hyperloop is the proposed “Fifth Mode of Transportation” - coined “a cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table.” A hyperloop pod levitates and travels at nearly the speed of sound inside a vacuum tube, which eliminates air resistance. Musk hosts the annual competition to university students to encourage the evolution of urban transportation. The goal is to design, build, and race the fastest prototype pod at SpaceX’s mile-long test track in Hawthorne, …
Aircraft Leading Edge Strakes On Conventional Naca Wings, Anthony Pirone
Aircraft Leading Edge Strakes On Conventional Naca Wings, Anthony Pirone
Discovery Day - Prescott
The prevention of stall on aircraft wings has been a great challenge over the history of airplanes. As the aircraft become more and more complex, it becomes harder to fit high lift devices and leading-edge devices onto high camber, supercritical airfoil aircraft wings. In the fighter jet class of aircraft the obstacle of stall is usually delayed by the implementation of leading-edge root extensions or strakes. Strakes create a tip vortice along the sharp leading edge that transitions over the surface of the wing preventing separation on both the upper and lower surface of the wing allowing the fighter jet …
Sae Aero West Heavy Lift Competition Team - Eaglenautics, Anthony Pirone, Evan Stuart, Jessica Millard, Nathaniel Scott
Sae Aero West Heavy Lift Competition Team - Eaglenautics, Anthony Pirone, Evan Stuart, Jessica Millard, Nathaniel Scott
Discovery Day - Prescott
ERAU’s SAE Aero Design West Competition team encourages students of all majors who have an interest in the design of heavy-lift cargo and passenger aircraft to design, build, and fly a large RC aircraft to meet a new set of regulations each competition year. Since the team, Eaglenautics, was founded in 2017 it has successfully been to competition once in April 2019 in California. The team’s aircraft flew 4 out of 5 flight rounds, passed all technical inspections, and is now on display in ERAU’s Aero-Fab in the AXFAB. The 2020 competition requirements are unique in that the cargo’s weight-to-volume …
Launch Vehicle Design For The Far-Mars Competition, Matthew Boban, Bryce Smoldon, Jonathan Noble, Stefan Johnson, Maxwell Kauker, Nicholas Wright, Andrew Lucka
Launch Vehicle Design For The Far-Mars Competition, Matthew Boban, Bryce Smoldon, Jonathan Noble, Stefan Johnson, Maxwell Kauker, Nicholas Wright, Andrew Lucka
Discovery Day - Prescott
Zenith Propulsion is constructing a launch vehicle, named Altair, to compete in a competition hosted by the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) and the Mars Society. The objective for Zenith Propulsion is to design, build and launch Altair to a qualifying altitude of 30,000 feet in the FAR-Mars competition. Altair will utilize a rocket engine that has been in development at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus since late 2018. This engine, named Janus, uses liquid oxygen and Jet-A and is designed to deliver 1000 lbf of thrust. Altair will be launched from the FAR launch site, in Mojave, CA, on …
Utilizing Guided Simulation In Conjunction With Digital Learning Tools In Air Traffic Control Training To Enhance Learning At The Collegiate Level, Allison Little, Benjamin Cook, Holly Hughes, Kyle Wilkerson
Utilizing Guided Simulation In Conjunction With Digital Learning Tools In Air Traffic Control Training To Enhance Learning At The Collegiate Level, Allison Little, Benjamin Cook, Holly Hughes, Kyle Wilkerson
Discovery Day - Prescott
Students in an air traffic control program are required to learn and apply advance knowledge and skills in a limited time frame. All students learn at different rates as well as through different learning styles. Swivl is a video capture tool designed to enhance student learning by allowing students to refer back to their individual classroom lab training session videos via an online portal. Swivl is being utilized in two ATC lab courses. During this research, two technological shortcomings were discovered: (1) Swivl lacks the ability to capture audio from the COA’s existing communication software and (2) Swivl cannot focus …
Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Operations Into The National Airspace System, Benjamin Cook, Holly Hughes, Kyle Wilkerson, Allison Little
Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Operations Into The National Airspace System, Benjamin Cook, Holly Hughes, Kyle Wilkerson, Allison Little
Discovery Day - Prescott
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are expected to dominate the National Airspace System (NAS) in the near future. One particular barrier preventing the integration of unmanned aircraft into the NAS is the lack of standardized procedures for distinguishing and communicating with remote UAS operators. In preparation for adopting unmanned flight operations into a complex control system, it is important to identify solutions to effectively control UAS in the NAS. To achieve simultaneous safe manned and unmanned aircraft operations in the NAS, the Joint UAS and ATC Team (JUAT) at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) are developing a system that could be used …