A modeling methodology and flight simulations are presented that account for the external
loads of a slender high-speed vehicle maneuvering with divert and attitude control jets. The …

There are numerous conceptual design stage rotorcraft analysis tasks which demand a high-
fidelity and low cost method for rotor load distribution predictions. Considering Urban Air …

Efficient Numerical Simulation of Aerothermoelastic Hypersonic Vehicles Hypersonic
vehicles operate in a high-energy flight environment characterized by high dynamic …

Load bearing thermal protection systems, in the form of thin-gauge metallic airframes,
provide a means to minimize the weight and improve the serviceability of reusable, long …

Trajectory optimization by indirect methods yields high-quality solutions in a computationally
efficient manner. Using continuation strategies a large set of data is generated representing …

Abstract Analysis of hypersonic vehicle designs are costly due, in part, to the physical
phenomena unique to the hypersonic flight regime. It is desirable to consider as many of …

A reduced order model based on singular value decomposition and correlation is developed
to capture the nonlinear dynamics of a hypersonic vehicle in flight. A set of training samples …

This dissertation is focused on two design considerations for supersonic intercept missiles:(i)
increased structural slenderness and (ii) attitude control jets. The resulting new designs …