Aerospace Fundamentals, Applications, and Exploration
Aim & scope
This book series addresses the quest to enable human exploration of our world and beyond, including key topics related to fundamental physics, engineering, cutting-edge research, and theoretical studies. The series also covers a wide array of applications and topics germane to the fundamentals including advanced aeronautics, space exploration, manned and unmanned missions, resource utilization of the solar system, human sustainability off-world and the science and technology of the search for life in the solar system and beyond. The following are examples of topics that further define the broad scope of the series:
Vertical/short take-off and landing aircraft
High speed (supersonic and hypersonic) aeronautics
Avionics – Reliability analysis, safety, software and hardware, control systems, and cybersecurity
Flight dynamics, stability, control and guidance – includes trajectory optimization for both air and space applications
Flight simulation and computer modelling of space travel
Machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to aerospace
Aerospace propulsion: Recent advances and practical applications
Aerospace navigation and surveillance systems
Point-to-point suborbital transport systems
Aerospace communications: Issues and technologies
High-altitude pseudo-satellites (high-altitude airships or dirigibles), unmanned drones and aerial vehicles (UAVs)
SmallSats, CubeSats, and Nanosats for commerce and exploration
Novel materials and structures for aerospace applications
Technologies to address challenging (aerospace) environments – includes radiation and space weather, extreme temperatures and thermal cycling, LEO debris and micrometeoroids
In-situ resource utilization: Small bodies and surface habitation
Energy conversion and storage for space exploration
Power-integrated devices and integrated-power systems
Thermal issues for aerospace systems and vehicles
Instrumentation to enable planetary and small body exploration
Robotics, human-machine collaboration, and human operations
Biomimicry and nature-inspired aerospace technologies
Dual-use technologies and spin-offs from aerospace for commercial products
Technologies to facilitate search for life in the solar system
Life in hostile environments
Planetary protection and defense
Audience
The volumes in the series will be essential reading for:
Researchers and postgraduate students who welcome reliable, authoritative works with detailed discussions, valuable insights, and practical case studies on both traditional topics and burgeoning spheres within the broad and dynamically progressing field of aerospace engineering.
R&D professionals and engineers working in industry who seek to keep up-to-date or progress their specialist knowledge through visionary solutions to theoretical and applied problems in their efforts to champion state-of-the-art applications and/or integration of cutting-edge practices for enhanced performance, efficiency, safety, and environmental impact.
Editorial Board
The series editor is Aloysius F. Hepp, Chief Technologist at Nanotech Innovations and an independent consultant based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He earned a PhD in Inorganic Photochemistry in 1983 from MIT and retired in December 2016 from the Photovoltaic & Electrochemical Systems Branch of the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland). He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 1992–3. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Achievement medal in 1997. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Albany and Cleveland State University. Dr. Hepp has co-authored nearly 200 publications (including six patents) focused on processing of thin film and nanomaterials for I–III–VI solar cells, Li-ion batteries, integrated power devices and flight experiments, and precursors and spray pyrolysis deposition of sulfides and carbon nanotubes. He has co-edited twelve books on advanced materials processing, energy conversion and electronics, biomimicry, and aerospace technologies.
He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet (MSSP) and is currently the chair of the International Advisory Board of MSSP. He also serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Mater. Sci. and Engin. B Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet and Heliyon Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet. He has also been appointed as Series Editor for the Vacuum and Thin-Film Deposition Technologies series.
To discuss a potential contribution to the series, or to submit a proposal, please contact Dr Hepp [email protected] Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet or Acquisitions Editor Chiara Giglio [email protected] Wird in neuem Tab/Fenster geöffnet.
The editorial board comprises the following members:
Jai Ahuja, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States Finn Ankersen, European Space Agency, Netherlands Young K. Bae, Y.K. Bae Corporation, United States Angelo Cervone, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Runqi Chai, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Anthony Colozza, NASA Glenn Research Center, United States Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary, Canada T.E. Girish, University College Thiruvananthapuram, India Petra Gruber, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria Michael H. Jin, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States Vaclav Knap, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia Yixiang Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Arun Misra, McGill University, Canada Maria Antonietta Perino, Thales Alenia Space, Italy Claude Phipps, Photonic Associates LLC, United States Ryne P. Raffaelle, Rochester Institute of Technology, United States Carlo E.D. Riboldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Claudia Inés Rivera Cárdenas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Roberto Sabatini, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates John M. Sankovic, Ohio Aerospace Institute, United States Luis A. Saucedo-Mora, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Ian Sellers, State University of New York at Buffalo, United States Stefano Seriani, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy Pasquale M. Sforza, University of Florida, United States Nallathambi Siva Shanmugam, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India Vikram Shyam, NASA Glenn Research Center, United States Stefano Silvestrini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Anezina Solomonidou, Hellenic Space Center, Greece Joseph Warner, Comsat Architects, United States Aiko Yakeno, Tohoku University, Japan Xiang Zhang, Coventry University, United Kingdom