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Daniele Granata, Alberto Savino and Alex Zanotti
The present study aimed to investigate the capability of mid-fidelity aerodynamic solvers in performing a preliminary evaluation of the static and dynamic stability derivatives of aircraft configurations in their design phase. In this work, the mid-fidel...
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Yannian Yang, Yu Liang, Stefan Pröbsting, Pengyu Li, Haoyu Zhang, Benxu Huang, Chaofan Liu, Hailong Pei and Bernd R. Noack
In the near future, urban air mobility (UAM) will let an old dream of human society come true: affordable and fast air transportation for almost everyone. Among the various existing designs, the multicopter configuration best combines the advantages of c...
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Álvaro Muñoz and Pablo García-Fogeda
This paper compares various procedures for determining the optimal control law for a wing section in compressible flow. The flow regime includes subsonic, sonic and supersonic flows. For the evolution of the system in the Laplace plane, the present metho...
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Evangelos Filippou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Athanasios Kotzakolios and Vassilis Kostopoulos
The pursuit of more efficient transport has led engineers to develop a wide variety of aircraft configurations with the aim of reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, these innovative designs introduce significant aeroelastic couplings that can...
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Haoyu Cheng, Dan Zhao, Nay Lin Oo, Xiran Liu and Xu Dong
Ice accretion is inevitable on fix-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) when they are applied to surveillance and mapping over colder climates and arctic regions. Subsequent aerodynamic profile changes have caused the current interest in the better predi...
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Riccardo Cadamuro, Maria Teresa Cazzola, Nicolò Lontani and Carlo E. D. Riboldi
Sounding rockets constitute a class of rocket with a generally simple layout, being composed of a cylindrical center-body, a nosecone, a number of fins placed symmetrically around the longitudinal axis (usually three or four), and possibly a boat-tail. T...
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Catharina Moreira, Nikolai Herzog and Christian Breitsamter
Recent developments in electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles show the need for a better understanding of transient aero-mechanical propeller loads for non-axial inflow conditions. The variety of vehicle configurations conceptualized w...
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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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Hugo Valayer, Nathalie Bartoli, Mauricio Castaño-Aguirre, Rémi Lafage, Thierry Lefebvre, Andrés F. López-Lopera and Sylvain Mouton
In aerodynamics, characterizing the aerodynamic behavior of aircraft typically requires a large number of observation data points. Real experiments can generate thousands of data points with suitable accuracy, but they are time-consuming and resource-int...
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Ming Qi, Wenguo Zhu and Shu Li
The flight of a migratory bird-like flapping-wing aircraft is characterized by a low Reynolds number and unsteadiness. The selection of airfoil profiles is critical to designing an efficient flapping-wing aircraft. To choose the suitable airfoil for vari...
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