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Zikang Jin, Zonghan Yu, Fanshuo Meng, Wei Zhang, Jingzhi Cui, Xiaolong He, Yuedi Lei and Omer Musa
The parametric design method is widely utilized in the preliminary design stage for hypersonic vehicles; it ensures the fast iteration of configuration, generation, and optimization. This study proposes a novel parametric method for a wide-range, wing-mo...
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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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Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, María Jesús Casati-Calzada, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Nieto-Centenero, Juan Carlos Matías-García and Estela Barroso-Barderas
This paper shows a series of tools that help in the research of morphing micro air vehicles (MAVs). These tools are aimed at generating parametric CAD models of wings in a few seconds that can be used in aerodynamic studies, either via CFD directly using...
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Behzad Amirsalari and Joana Rocha
Airflow-induced noise prediction and reduction is one of the priorities for both the energy and aviation industries. This review paper provides valuable insights into flow-induced noise computation, prediction, and optimization methods with state-of-the-...
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Sijia Jia, Zhenkai Zhang, Qi Dang, Chen Song and Chao Yang
Compared with traditional wings equipped with conventional control surfaces, variable-camber morphing wings have become a hot research topic in the field of aviation due to their ability to maintain a smooth and continuous overall shape while ensuring ex...
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Zhuoer Yao, Zi Kan and Daochun Li
The spanwise morphing wing can change its aerodynamic shape to suit its flight environment, thereby having the potential to improve the flight performance of the aircraft, especially in gusty conditions. To investigate the potential of morphing wings, th...
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Wei Huang, Qing Zhang, Jinsheng Xu, Jindong Wang, Jian Zheng and Xiong Chen
To investigate the flow mechanism of feather-like rough airfoils based on swift wings, computational simulations were employed to explore their overall aerodynamic characteristics in comparison to equivalent smooth airfoils. The study focused on angles o...
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Liqi Zhang and Yonghui Zhao
Advanced rotational variable-swept missile wings require the ability to rapidly deploy, retract and reach the designated position. Therefore, the establishment of an effective time-varying aeroelastic model of a rotating missile wing is the prerequisite ...
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Peter L. Bishay, James S. Kok, Luis J. Ferrusquilla, Brian M. Espinoza, Andrew Heness, Antonio Buendia, Sevada Zadoorian, Paul Lacson, Jonathan D. Ortiz, Ruiki Basilio and Daniel Olvera
Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies. Morphing technology aims to replace conventiona...
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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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