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Nezar Sahbon and Michal Welcer
The accuracy of aerodynamically controlled guided projectile simulations is largely determined by the aerodynamic model employed in flight simulations which impacts vehicle interaction with the surrounding air. In this work, the performance of projectile...
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Yuxiang Zhang, Reamonn MacReamoinn, Philip Cardiff and Jennifer Keenahan
Aerodynamic performance is of critical importance to the design of long-span bridges. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling offers bridge designers an opportunity to investigate aerodynamic performance for long-span bridges during the design phase...
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Nicholas F. Giannelis, Tamas Bykerk and Gareth A. Vio
This paper introduces a generic model for the study of aerodynamic behaviour relevant to fifth-generation high-performance aircraft. The model design is presented, outlining simplifications made to retain the key features of modern high-performance vehic...
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Anton Hadar, Andrei-Daniel Voicu, Florin Baciu, Daniel Vlasceanu, Daniela-Ioana Tudose and Stefan-Dan Pastrama
This paper describes the transition towards a composite structure, with the same overall aerodynamic characteristics, for a tail rotor blade of an IAR330 helicopter. The newly proposed structure of the composite blade is made of a carbon-roving spar embe...
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Konstantin Bantscheff and Christian Breitsamter
Considering aeroelastic effects plays a vital role in the aircraft design process. The construction of elastic wind tunnel models is a critical element in the investigation of occurring aeroelastic phenomena. However, the structural scaling between full-...
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Simão Marques, Lucas Kob, Trevor T. Robinson and Weigang Yao
This work presents a strategy to build reduced-order models suitable for aerodynamic shape optimisation, resulting in a multifidelity optimisation framework. A reduced-order model (ROM) based on a discrete empirical interpolation (DEIM) method is employe...
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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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Xu Li and Zhou Zhou
In order to study the aerodynamic interaction of the airfoil and jet flow, the free streamline model and the panel method are combined to develop a fast calculation method for the airfoil in two-dimensional inviscid jet flow. The vortex strength and posi...
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Matej Majeric, Nina Verdel, Jan Ogrin, Hans-Christer Holmberg and Matej Supej
Aerodynamic drag is a major cause of energy losses during alpine ski racing. Here we developed two models for monitoring the aerodynamic drag on elite alpine skiers in the technical disciplines. While 10 skiers assumed standard positions (high, middle, t...
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Nicholas J. Lawson, Simon G. Davies, Bidur Khanal and Rein I. Hoff
This paper presents in-flight measurements of the interaction of the wing wake of a stalled Slingsby T67 Firefly light aircraft with the aircraft tailplane. Tailplane data was recorded by a GoPro360 camera and analyzed using spatial correlation methods. ...
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