About the Editors

Professor Vigor Yang is the William R.T. Oakes Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Tech. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), and Combustion Institute (CI). He is currently a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Aerospace Series and co-editor of the book Gas Turbine Emissions, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Professor Wei Shyy is President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Chaired Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is currently a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Aerospace Series and the author of Introduction to Flapping Wing Aerodynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2013 and co-editor in chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by Wiley-Blackwell.

Contact details

To write an element for this series, contact Professor Vigor Yang at vigor.yang@aerospace.gatech.edu or Professor Wei Shyy at weishyy@ust.hk

For more information about aerospace engineering elements, contact Phil Meyler at pmeyler@cambridge.org.

Why publish in Elements: Benefits to Authors

Elements will be an innovative and different form of publication offering a new outlet for academic authors. Its benefits include:

1. A unique opportunity to publish substantive contributions to knowledge. Each Element will be short at 20,000 to 30,000 words: longer than a journal article but shorter than a book. The aim is to attract authors to publish substantive ideas which are too long for a journal article but will be considerably shorter than a full length book with the time and effort needed for a conventional book. Elements will fill a gap in the academic and professional publishing market.  
2. Rapid publication within 12 weeks of acceptance of the final manuscript.
3. Elements will be peer-reviewed.
4. Elements will comprise up-to-date Surveys and Masterclasses on existing and emerging topics written by experts in the field. They will be invaluable contributions to both research and teaching and they will appeal to other specialist groups such as politicians, military and industrial staff as well as informed general readers.
5. Elements will be up-to-date, with authors able to update their contributions regularly. Elements will be posted on the CUP website and will include supporting material (e.g. data sets; audio files; videos).
6. CUP will offer Open Access publication options.