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Jason Cornelius, Sven Schmitz, Jose Palacios, Bernadine Juliano and Richard Heisler
This work details the development and validation of a methodology for high-resolution rotor models used in hybrid Blade Element Momentum Theory Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier?Stokes (BEMT-URANS) CFD. The methodology is shown to accurately predict sing...
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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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Kyohei Hanazaki and Wataru Yamazaki
Busemann?s supersonic biplane airfoil can reduce wave drag through shock interactions at its designed freestream Mach number. However, a choking phenomenon occurs with a decrease in the freestream Mach number, and the drag coefficient increases significa...
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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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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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Neboj?a Lukic, Toni Ivanov, Jelena Svorcan and Aleksandar Simonovic
A novel concept of morphing airfoils, capable of changing camber and thickness, is proposed. A variable airfoil shape, defined by six input parameters, is achieved by allowing the three spinal points (at fixed axial positions) to slide vertically, while ...
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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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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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Christoforos S. Rekatsinas, Dimitris K. Dimitriou and Nikolaos A. Chrysochoidis
The present paper investigates the design process and the dimensioning of a tailless type-C composite sandwich unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The objective is to investigate an innovative aircraft configuration which exceeds the standard approach of ribs...
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Daniel Molinero-Hernández, Sergio R. Galván-González, Nicolás D. Herrera-Sandoval, Pablo Guzman-Avalos, J. Jesús Pacheco-Ibarra and Francisco J. Domínguez-Mota
Driven by the emergence of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), the solution of increasingly large and intricate numerical problems has become feasible. Yet, the integration of GPUs into Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes still presents a significant ...
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