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Zhenlong Wu, Tianyu Zhang, Yuan Gao and Huijun Tan
In this paper, a novel small-scale gust generator research facility was designed and examined for generating Sears-type gusts. The design scheme, integration with the wind tunnel, experiment and validation of its capability are presented in detail. To he...
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Aminurrashid Noordin, Mohd Ariffanan Mohd Basri and Zaharuddin Mohamed
The lightweight nature of micro air vehicles (MAVs) makes them highly sensitive to perturbations, thus emphasizing the need for effective control strategies that can sustain attitude stability throughout translational movement. This study evaluates the p...
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Jun Jian, Jinhai Chen and Peter J. Webster
Ship pilots and maritime safety administration have an urgent need for more accurate and earlier warnings for strong wind gusts. This study firstly investigated the ?Oriental Star? cruise ship capsizing event in 2015, one of the deadliest shipwreck event...
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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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Francesco Toffol and Sergio Ricci
This paper presents the design of an innovative wingtip device actively actuated to control the aeroelastic loads, with a focus on the gust load alleviation. It summarizes the work carried out in the Clean Sky 2 AIRGREEN2 project, where the device was de...
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Xinyu Ai, Yuguang Bai, Wei Qian, Yuhai Li and Xiangyan Chen
In this study, an experimental investigation is performed on a scaled, all-movable horizontal tail to study the aeroelastic behaviors induced by multiple free-plays. The dynamic response in wind tunnel tests is measured by strain gauges, an accelerometer...
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Yitao Zhou, Zhigang Wu and Chao Yang
Gust alleviation is of great significance for improving aircraft ride quality and reducing gust load. Using aircraft response (feedback control) and gust disturbance information (feedforward control) to improve the gust alleviation effect is worthy of at...
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Yanru Wang, Yongguang Li, Chuanxiong Zhang, Xu Wang, Guangyu Fan, Qianqian Qi and Bin Fu
The southeast coastal region of China is frequently affected by typhoons. The observation station was chosen to be located on the roof of Wenzhou University?s architectural engineering building to collect real-time wind speed data during the landfalling ...
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Tsung-Yueh Lin, Chun-Yu Yang, Shiu-Wu Chau and Jen-Shiang Kouh
Typhoons, such as Soudelor, which caused the collapse of several onshore wind turbines in 2015, pose a considerable challenge to Taiwan?s wind energy industry. In this study the characteristics of the aerodynamic loads acting on a wind turbine due to win...
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Hana Stredová, Jana Podhrázská, Filip Chuchma, Tomá? Streda, Josef Kucera, Petra Fukalová and Martin Blecha
Environmental degradation, for example, by wind erosion, is a serious global problem. Despite the enormous research on this topic, complex methods considering all relevant factors remain unpublished. The main intent of our paper is to develop a methodolo...
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