On August 9, 1995, because of a launch vehicle failure the Koreasat 1 satellite was placed into an orbit that was 3,400 nautical miles (6,351 km) lower than the planned geostationary transfer orbit. The Lockheed-Martin ...

The topic of the first part of this research is trajectory optimization of dynamical systems via computational swarm intelligence. Particle swarm optimization is a nature-inspired heuristic search method that relies on a ...

Modern spacecraft trajectory mission planning regularly involves some component of numerical optimization to provide a significant improvement in a solution, and in some instances is the only manner for finding an acceptable ...

This thesis is presented in two parts. In the first part, a fully nonlinear controller is developed for controlling the position and attitude of the Crazyflie quadrotor. In order to use this controller, a system identification ...

Our result is applied to the electric power system whose daily operations must be guarded against failures due to natural disasters, rogue attacks and other unexpected conditions. One of the central challenges in current ...

The application of vortex generators (VGs) for shock/boundary layer interaction flow control in a novel external compression, axisymmetric, low-boom concept inlet was studied using numerical and experimental methods. The ...

Vortex aerodynamics has played an important role in the development of high performance aircraft in recent years. Although computer codes which solve the three dimensional Euler equations have been used extensively to study ...

This thesis aims to interpret the first temperature measurements recorded by the research group in terms of heat release from pressurizations of specific nanoparticles of alloys by Hydrogen. The number of unknowns was an ...

An implicit noniterative finite difference method in conservative form has been used to solve numerically the Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations for the compressible flow over a triconic body. The numerical solutions ...