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Yousef Gharbia, Javad Farrokhi Derakhshandeh, Md. Mahbub Alam and A. M. Amer
Wingtip vortices generated from aircraft wingtips, as a result of the pressure differential at the wingtip, constitute a major component of the total drag force, especially during take-off and landing. In addition to the drag issue, these vortices also p...
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Bo Yang, Hesen Yang, Ning Zhao, Hua Liang, Zhi Su and Dongsheng Zhang
The double-wedge configuration is a typical characteristic shape of the rudder surface of high-speed aircraft. The impact of the shock wave/boundary layer interaction and the shock wave/shock wave interaction resulting from the double wedge on aircraft a...
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Alessandro Capone, Francisco Alves Pereira and Fabio Di Felice
The design of super-cavitating propellers takes advantage of the development of air cavities on the blades? surface to reduce drag and, ultimately, increase efficiency. The mechanism of flow modification induced by the development of a cavity on the prop...
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Fangyou Yu, Zhanbiao Gao, Qifan Zhang, Lianjie Yue and Hao Chen
Suppressing shock-induced flow separation has been a long-standing problem in the design of supersonic vehicles. To reduce the structural and design complexity of control devices, a passive control technique based on micro-serrations is proposed and its ...
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Caleb Robb and Ryan Paul
This paper presents the aerodynamic modeling of a flying wing featuring Ludwig Prandtl?s bell spanload. The aerodynamic models are developed using a medium fidelity vortex-lattice method and using a Reynolds-Averaged Navier?Stokes computational fluid dyn...
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Hans van Haren
A pressure sensor, located for four months in the middle of a 1275 m-long taut deep-ocean mooring in 2380 m water depth above a seamount with sub-surface top-buoys and seafloor anchor-weight, demonstrates narrow-band spectral peaks of deterministic well-...
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Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Alejandra López-Cuervo-Alcaraz, Daniel Anguita-Mazón, Juan Carlos Matías-García, Estela Barroso-Barderas and Jaime Fernández-Antón
The paper outlines an algorithm for the rapid aerodynamic evaluation of winglet geometries using the TORNADO Vortex Lattice Method. It is a very useful tool to obtain a first approximation of the aerodynamic properties and for performing an optimization ...
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Hanyue Rao, Yifu Chen, Yayun Shi, Tihao Yang and Hongyang Liu
Based on the adjoint method, the afterbody of a military transport aircraft was optimized and designed to meet engineering constraints under real flight conditions. Guidance for the key design parameters of the afterbody of the military transport aircraf...
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Spyridon Kilimtzidis and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The race towards cleaner and more efficient commercial aviation demands novel designs featuring improved aerodynamic and structural characteristics, the main pillars that drive aircraft efficiency. Among the many proposed and introduced, the increase in ...
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Yuhang Ma, Jiecheng Du, Tihao Yang, Yayun Shi, Libo Wang and Wei Wang
Robust optimization design (ROD) is playing an increasingly significant role in aerodynamic shape optimization and aircraft design. However, an efficient ROD framework that couples uncertainty quantification (UQ) and a powerful optimization algorithm for...
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