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Jinduo Yang, Xi?an Li, Weiping Wang, Hao Chai, Mingxiao An and Qianyi Dai
The process of dust transportation is widespread, leading to the formation of regions such as the Loess Plateau. In order to understand the mechanisms of dust particle transportation, this study conducted wind tunnel experiments to simulate natural wind-...
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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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Hassan Aleisa, Konstantinos Kontis and Melike Nikbay
Developing wind tunnel models is time consuming, labor intensive, and expensive. Rapid prototyping for wind tunnel tests is an effective, faster, and cheaper method to obtain aerodynamic performance results while considerably reducing acquisition time an...
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Siliang Du, Yi Zha and Qijun Zhao
The concept of the Fan Wing, a novel aircraft vector-force-integrated device that combines a power unit with a fixed wing to generate distributed lift and thrust by creating a low-pressure vortex on the wing?s surface, was studied. To investigate the uni...
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Mirko Dinulovic, Aleksandar Benign and Bo?ko Ra?uo
In the present work, the potential application of machine learning techniques in the flutter prediction of composite materials missile fins is investigated. The flutter velocity data set required for different fin aerodynamic geometries and materials is ...
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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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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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Yoichi Suenaga and Kojiro Suzuki
This study examines the wing hinge oscillations in an aircraft concept that employs multiple wings, or small aircraft, chained at the wing tips through freely rotatable hinges with minimal structural damping and no mechanical position-locking system. Thi...
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María Elena Tejeda-del-Cueto, Manuel Alberto Flores-Alfaro, Miguel Toledo-Velázquez, Lorena del Carmen Santos-Cortes, José Hernández-Hernández and Marco Osvaldo Vigueras-Zúñiga
The objective of this study is to develop a genetic algorithm that uses the IGP parameterization to increase the lift coefficient (CL) of three airfoils to be used on wings of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The geometry of three baseline airfoils was m...
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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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