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Omkar Walvekar and Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy
A conceptual framework is presented to determine the improvement in the aerodynamic performance of a canard aircraft fitted with distributed propellers along its main wing. A preliminary study is described with four airframe?propeller configurations pred...
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Antonio Chiariello, Gaetano Perillo, Mauro Linari, Raffaele Russo, Salvatore Orlando, Pasquale Vitale and Marika Belardo
This study addresses the crucial role of post-buckling behavior analysis in the structural design of composite aeronautical structures. Traditional engineering practices tend to result in oversized composite components, increasing structural weight. EASA...
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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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Yingzhe Zhang, Baohong Bai, Dakai Lin and Peiqing Liu
The flap side-edge is a vital contributor to airframe noise. In this study, we propose a novel flap side-edge noise reduction method based on the concept of active blowing air. A long slot is opened from the flap?s lower surface to the tip surface to ind...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia and Alessandro Antonio Quarta
The combination of new airframes with electric and hybrid-electric propulsion is a potential solution to decarbonize aviation. In this context, recent studies have proven that the box-wing airframe, if integrated on a hybrid-electric aircraft belonging t...
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Lei Zhang, Jin Mu, Hongtu Ma, Guicheng Dai and Shengxi Tong
General aviation is an important branch of the aviation field. As a green energy aircraft, the electric aircraft is an important component and development direction of general aviation aircraft, and its safety is crucial. In this paper, the aerodynamic a...
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Stanislav Karpuk, Yiyuan Ma and Ali Elham
Present work investigates the potential of a long-range commercial blended wing body configuration powered by hydrogen combustion engines with future airframe and propulsion technologies. Future technologies include advanced materials, load alleviation t...
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Zhiping Li, Yujiang Lu, Tianyu Pan and Yafei Zhang
The flow separation occurring in the S-shaped diffuser with boundary layer ingestion (BLI) has a significant effect on the performance of the embedded engine. Previous studies have found that the area ratio (AR) as well as the length-to-offset ratio (LOR...
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Dioser Santos, Jeremy Rogers, Armando De Rezende and Victor Maldonado
The performance of a small reconfigurable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is evaluated, combining a multidisciplinary approach in the computational analysis of additive manufactured structures, fluid dynamics, and experiments. Reconfigurable UAVs promise c...
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Giuseppe Palaia, Karim Abu Salem and Alessandro A. Quarta
The continuously expanding transport aviation sector has a significant impact on climate change, and measures must be taken to limit its environmental impact. The study of advanced airframes, which may increase the lift-to-drag ratio and structural effic...
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