Parametric modeling of aircrafts plays a crucial role in the aerodynamic design process.
Effective parametric approaches have large design space with a few variables. Parametric …

Reusable launch vehicles (RLV) are slowly emerging as a solution to reduce space access
costs, bring ing potential benefits from novel breakthrough space application. Whilst space …

The wide speed range vehicle is believed to be ideal for space round trip and its design
process incorporates a number of disciplines. To achieve an overall optimal design, we …

Waverider is expected to break the lift-to-drag ratio constraint in the hypersonic flight
condition and it is commonly been studied as the forebody of the cruise vehicle. In this …

Three-dimensional class/shape function transformation (CST) approach is an analytical
method, and it can define the geometrical shapes by a small number of parameters and it is …

The hypersonic gliding vehicle is attracting an increasing attention because of its high lift-to-
drag ratio and cruising velocity. This kind of vehicle may experience different airspaces as …

The drag reduction and thermal protection system applied to hypersonic re-entry vehicles
have attracted an increasing attention, and several novel concepts have been proposed by …

Air-breathing vehicles, a crucial field of the aerospace industry in recent years, are required
to have exceptional flight performance in a wide range. As a practical and essential way to …

A design methodology of the variable Mach number waverider is proposed for the wide-
speed range vehicle in this paper. The proposed approach is based on the variable design …

In this paper we developed a multi-disciplinary, multi-objective optimization procedure for
the shape generation of re-entry spacecrafts performing conventional landing from a Low …