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Hui Yang, Songcheng Jiang, Yan Wang and Hong Xiao
A multi-dimensional morphing wing skeleton mechanism is proposed with double-sided triangular pyramid units, which can realize continuous variable span-wise bend, span-wise twist, and sweep. A lockable morphing unit is designed, and its mechanism/structu...
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Gui Cheng, Tianrui Ma, Jun Yang, Nan Chang and Xiang Zhou
Morphing trailing edge wing as an important morphing wing technology has gained wide attention because of its advantages, such as gust mitigation, improved aerodynamic efficiency, and reduced radar reflective area. However, the key problems such as low l...
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Sijia Jia, Zhenkai Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Chen Song and Chao Yang
This paper introduces the realization and wind tunnel testing of a novel variable camber wing equipped with compliant morphing trailing edges. Based on the aerodynamic shape and compliant mechanisms that were optimized in advance, a wind tunnel model cal...
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Xiaoming Wang, Xinhan Hu, Chengbin Huang and Wenya Zhou
The mission performance of future advanced aerospace structures can be synthetically improved via active shape control utilizing piezoelectric materials. Multiple work modes are required. Bending/twisting mode control receives special attention for many ...
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Shenghui Yi, Lu Shen, Chih-Yung Wen, Xiaoqiao He and Jian Lu
Multistable shells that have the ability to hold more than one stable configuration are promising for adaptive structures, especially for airfoil. In contrast to existing studies on bistable shells, which are well demonstrated by the Venus flytrap plant ...
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Patrick Meyer, Sebastian Lück, Tobias Spuhler, Christoph Bode, Christian Hühne, Jens Friedrichs and Michael Sinapius
High aspect ratio aircraft have a significantly reduced induced drag, but have only limited installation space for control surfaces near the wingtip. This paper describes a multidisciplinary design methodology for a morphing aileron that is based on pres...
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Azim Hosseini, Sasan Tavakoli, Abbas Dashtimanesh, Prasanta K. Sahoo and Mihkel Kõrgesaar
This paper presents CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations of the performance of a planing hull in a calm-water condition, aiming to evaluate similarities and differences between results of different CFD models. The key differences between these ...
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Angelos Kafkas and George Lampeas
Current technology in evaluating the aeroelastic behavior of aerospace structures is based on the staggered coupling between structural and low fidelity linearized aerodynamic solvers, which has inherent limitations, although tried and trusted outside th...
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Timo von Wysocki, Michael Leupolz and Frank Gauterin
Noise vibration and harshness (NVH) development often takes place in the later development phases. Shifting the optimization to the early digital development phase enables more parameters to participate in the optimization and leads to a more holistic de...
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Mohammed Arab Fatiha, Benoît Augier, François Deniset, Pascal Casari and Jacques André Astolfi
In this work, a collaborative experimental study has been conducted to assess the effect an imposed internal pressure has on the controlling the hydrodynamic performance of a compliant composite hydrofoil. It was expected that the internal pressure toget...
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