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Pietro Roncioni, Marco Marini, Oscar Gori, Roberta Fusaro and Nicole Viola
The request for faster and greener civil aviation is urging the worldwide scientific community and aerospace industry to develop a new generation of supersonic aircraft, which are expected to be environmentally sustainable and to guarantee a high-level p...
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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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Kun Zhang, Jianyao Yao, Wenxiang Zhu, Zhifu Cao, Teng Li and Jianqiang Xin
The thermal protection system (TPS) represents one of the most critical subsystems for vehicle re-entry. However, due to uncertainties in thermal loads, material properties, and manufacturing deviations, the thermal response of the TPS exhibits significa...
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Marco Castaldi, Ignacio Mayo, Jacques Demolis and Frank Eulitz
Helicopter and turboprop engines are susceptible to the ingestion of debris and other foreign objects, especially during take-off, landing, and hover. To avoid deleterious effects, filters such as Inlet Particle Separators (IPS) can be installed. However...
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Ahsan Tanveer and Sarvat Mushtaq Ahmad
Pitch control of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using fluidic thrust vectoring (FTV) is a relatively novel technique requiring no moving control surfaces, such as elevators. In this paper, the authors? previous work on the characterization of a static ...
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Davide Ferretto, Oscar Gori, Roberta Fusaro and Nicole Viola
Recent studies have revealed that control surface deflection can cause a reduction in the aerodynamic efficiency of a hypersonic aircraft of up to 30%. In fact, the characterization of the Flight Control System is essential for the estimation of the cons...
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Diego Muniz Benedetti and Carlos Alberto Gurgel Veras
An instrumentation system for in-situ measurement of the inner-outer pressure differential at the upper and lower surfaces of dynamically inflatable wings is designed and tested, revealing important insights into the aerodynamic characteristics of inflat...
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Maurizio Arena, Christof Nagel, Rosario Pecora, Oliver Schorsch, Antonio Concilio and Ignazio Dimino
Nature has many striking examples of adaptive structures: the emulation of birds? flight is the true challenge of a morphing wing. The integration of increasingly innovative technologies, such as reliable kinematic mechanisms, embedded servo-actuation an...
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The development of wind turbine technology has led to higher and larger wind turbines with a higher sensitivity to dynamic effects. One of these effects is the aerodynamic damping, which introduces favorable damping forces in oscillating wind turbines. T...
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Alessio Suman, Annalisa Fortini, Nicola Aldi, Michele Pinelli and Mattia Merlin
The concept of smart morphing blades, which can control themselves to reduce or eliminate the need for active control systems, is a highly attractive solution in blade technology. In this paper, an innovative passive control system based on Shape Memory ...
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