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Aerospace Research Communications' Advisory Board and Associate Editors provide strategic and professional advice to the Editors-in-Chief. The journal recognises the following Advisory Board members and Associate Editors for their continuous guidance and support of the journal.

Guobiao Cai School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Gengdong Cheng Department of Engineering Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

Sanyi Du School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Wanlin Guo College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Oubay Hassan Civil and Computational Engineering Centre, School of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Guoqiang He School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Guowei He State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics (LNM), Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yaling He School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Haiyan Hu School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

Peixue Jiang Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

George Em Karniadakis Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Roland Lewis School of Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Tom Shih School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

Wei Shyy Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Zhigong Tang China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center, Mianyang, Sichuan, China

Zhijian Wang Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Yi-Min Xie School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kun Xu Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Yimin Xuan College of Energy and Power Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Mingwu Yuan Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Di Zhu College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Weiqiu Chen School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Fangsen Cui Department of Engineering Mechanics, Institute of High Performance Computing, Connexis, Singapore

Zhenping Feng School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Song Fu School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Xiao-Wei Gao School of Astronautics and Aeronautics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

Zhenghong Gao National Key Laboratory of Aerodynamic Design and Research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Hui Hu Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA

Xiaodong Li School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Yueming Li State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Hong Liu School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Hua Meng School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Ning Qin Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Maurizio Quadrio Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Aerospaziali, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Eusebio Valero ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Yue Yang Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

Yufeng Yao Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

Fang Chen School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Gang Chen School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

Chongwen Jiang School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Hao Liu School of Astronautics, Beihang University, Beijing, China

Liwu Liu School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Yaolong Liu School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Shuangxi Liu College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, China

Abhishek Phadke Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, USA

Tushar Madhukar Sonar Institute of Engineering and Technology, South Ural State University, Russia

Bing Wang School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Dingxi Wang School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Lifeng Wang College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Yiqian Wang School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Xiaohui Wei College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Bin Wu School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Fangfang Xie School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yang Zhang School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Liucheng Zhou School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

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The role of Revew Editor is aimed at researchers at the start of their career looking to gain experience of peer review. The role of the Review Editor is to act as a reviewer for manuscripts submitted to the journal.

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