American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Showcase – Kudos: Growing the influence of research

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A simple, valve-driven jet engine for small, fast drones
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Looking inside a hobby pulsejet to build simple, low-cost engines for drones
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How pulsing jet engines suck in extra air to double their thrust
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Interceptor guidance for defending against hypersonic weapons
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A study of the fractal characteristics of full scale liquid rocket engines.
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Participant results from AIAA’s 5th Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop inlet study are summarized.
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How does the wingtip vortex develop in the grid-generated turbulent flow?
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Wake Ingestion does not improve the fuel economy of jet engines
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Connecting the World's Rocket Launch Sites into One Shared, Efficient Network
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Reducing U.S. Dependence on Foreign-Made Space Parts to Protect National Security
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Using the random sampling of a safe area to generate low-cost trajectories for spacecraft
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How Gas Bubbles in Blood May Trigger Sudden Cardiac Arrest During Rapid Pressure Changes
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Boundary layer wake ingestion reduces the Propulsive Efficiency of jet engines
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Turbulence ingestion noise impact on eVTOL rotor.
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How to save on computational power and yet predict performance and acoustics of the rotor?
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A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach for Modeling and Predicting Complex Spinning Flows
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Designing, parametrizing, iteratively optimizing the aerodynamic geometry of a FSAE racecar in CFD.
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Cross-Disciplinary Dependency Tracing for Aerospace Systems
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Reducing UAV drag and improving trim using morphing flap and elevator systems
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The Eagle II, an Alternative to the Current NASA Artemis Lunar Landers
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Integrated Cognitive Analysis for Human–Autonomy Function Allocation and System Design
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Electrical Parameter Effects on Nanosecond Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharge Ion Sheath Propagation
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Performance-Oriented Supercritical Airfoil Sampling Method for Deep Learning and Geometry Predictions
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Keeping extinguisher-equipped drones stable during firefighting
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Gust load alleviation and active flutter suppression for highly flexible wing models
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Validating Flow360 to Predict Noise from Joby’s Five-Bladed eVTOL Propeller
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MOSAIC: Mars Orbital Survey and Imaging Cartographer
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Hybrid Hierarchical Swarm Robots for Planetary Exploration
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Improving Aircraft Fuel Efficiency Monitoring Using Advanced Bayesian Modeling
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Predicting electric aircraft range subject to battery voltage drop
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How polymer composite laminates can be designed to morph with temperature
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Toward practical quantum simulations of fluid flows
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How should we design a phase-change material-based thermal control system?
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Making a Flying Wing Aircraft Safer to Fly: A Smarter Autopilot That Knows Its Limits
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Understanding aircraft propeller vibrations
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How Rotor Spacing and Rotation Direction Affect Mars Multicopter Efficiency
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Designing space missions using digital holograms
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A Survey on How to Use Digital Engineering to Enable Computational Design and Analysis
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Aerodynamic Optimization of Angular Airfoil for Micro-Scale Mars Airplane
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Using Radar to Track the Spread of Hawaiian Tree Disease
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Mountain goat-inspired robotic hooves for exploring the Moon and Mars
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Rigid–Elastic Coupling Aeroelastic Modeling for Flexible Aircraft: From a Gibbs Function Perspective
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Probabilistic Approach to Assessing CCRS Capture System Performance Margin
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Helping Drones Dodge Obstacles in Real Time
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Keeping a Damaged Drone Flying: Safe Control After a Propeller Failure
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How the First Space Business Partnership Shaped Today's Satellite Economy
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Rethinking Composite Symmetry Through Tailored Antisymmetric Architectures
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Performance Evaluation of a Compact Superconducting Plasma Thruster