Stability and Control of Conventional and Unconventional Aerospace Vehicle Configurations

Dr. Bernd Chudoba is Associate Professor and Director of the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory at The University of Texas Arlington, and he is President of AVD Services LLC. The AVD setting is dedicated to advance the aerospace systems conceptual/preliminary synthesis capability that challenges the status quo for aerospace vehicle design, strategic and technical forecasting. Consistency, predictability, correctness and transparency are fundamental attributes to the AVD operation, overall aimed at reducing the volatility in early aerospace decision-making. Dr. Chudoba has 30 years of research & development experience in configuration aerodynamics, high-speed configuration propulsion, configuration stability & control and overall flight vehicle synthesis of subsonic to hypersonic and reusable space launch vehicle design. His experience relates to research with the European advanced design departments of Airbus Industrie, British Aerospace, EADS, Aérospatiale, ESA,Fairchild Dornier, and in the USA with NASA, DARPA, AFRL, NIA, Airbus Helicopters and others. He has earned his Dipl.-Ing. Degree in aerospace at the University of Applied Sciences FH, Aachen, Germany, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in aircraft design at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, England. Together with Paul Czysz and Claudio Bruno, he wrote the book Future Spacecraft Propulsion Systems and Integration: Enabling Technologies for Space Exploration (Springer Praxis Books, 3rd Edition 2017).

• Introduction and Objectives.- Generic Aircraft Design – Knowledge Utilization.- Assessment of the Aircraft Conceptual Design Process.- Generic Characterisation of Aircraft – Parameter Reduction Process.- ‘AeroMech’ – Conception of a Generic Stability and Control Methodology.- AeroMech Feasibility.- Conclusions.- Appendices.