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Fernando Montano, Ignazio Dimino and Alberto Milazzo
Morphing structures are a relatively new aircraft technology currently being investigated for a variety of applications, from civil to military. Despite the lack of literature maturity and its complexity, morphing wings offer significant aerodynamic bene...
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Ivan Kostic, Aleksandar Simonovic, Olivera Kostic, Du?an Ivkovic and Dragoljub Tanovic
This paper presents the second stage of a tandem fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerodynamic development. In the initial stage, the UAV was optimized by analyzing its characteristics only in symmetrical flight conditions. Posted requirements wer...
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Neboj?a Lukic, Toni Ivanov, Jelena Svorcan and Aleksandar Simonovic
A novel concept of morphing airfoils, capable of changing camber and thickness, is proposed. A variable airfoil shape, defined by six input parameters, is achieved by allowing the three spinal points (at fixed axial positions) to slide vertically, while ...
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Shengjie Xiao, Yuhong Sun, Dapeng Ren, Kai Hu, Huichao Deng, Yun Wang and Xilun Ding
A key challenge in flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV) design is to generate high aerodynamic force/torque for improving the vehicle?s maneuverability. This paper presents a bio-inspired hover-capable flapping-wing micro air vehicle, named RoboFly.S,...
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Lei Zhang, Jin Mu, Hongtu Ma, Guicheng Dai and Shengxi Tong
General aviation is an important branch of the aviation field. As a green energy aircraft, the electric aircraft is an important component and development direction of general aviation aircraft, and its safety is crucial. In this paper, the aerodynamic a...
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Estela Barroso Barderas, Rafael Bardera Mora, Ángel Antonio Rodriguez-Sevillano and Juan Carlos Matías García
Bird tails play a key role in aerodynamics and flight stability. They produce extra lift for takeoff and landing maneuvers, enhance wing functions and maintain stability during flight (keeping the bird from yawing, rolling and pitching, or otherwise losi...
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Xin Zhang, Heng Zhang and Jie Li
A zonal detached eddy simulation (ZDES) method, based on the two-equation k-? SST turbulence model, was employed to predict stall characteristics and capture small-scale vortex structures in the wake region of the main wing under the post-stall condition...
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Kun Mao, Wuxing Jing, Pan Cheng, Xiaoyan Liu, Yuchen Sun and Meihong Zhang
In this work, the enhanced correction factor technique (ECFT) is modified for a subsonic wing?body interference model, which can consider the forces on both the lifting boxes and the body elements of an idealized airplane, termed the advanced ECFT method...
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Aris Ikiades
Ice accretion on an aircraft affects the aerodynamic performance of the wings by disrupting the airflow, increasing drag, and altering its flight characteristics, leading to a main or tail wing-stall and altimetry to aircraft loss. The current generation...
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Li Li, Lei Qiao, Jiakuan Xu and Junqiang Bai
Currently, the aviation industry is facing an oil and energy crisis and is contributing much more greenhouse gas emissions to the environment. Aircraft design approaches, such as aerodynamic shape optimization, new configuration concepts, and active cont...
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