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Changwu Liang, Hong Li, Taoyong Su, Caleb Alistair Frank and Kewei Li
An electrically controlled rotor (ECR), also known as a swashplateless rotor, eliminates the swashplate system to implement the primary control via the trailing-edge flaps (TEFs), which can result in enhancements in rotor performance, as well as substant...
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Murat Millidere, Ferhat Akgül, Kemal Leblebicioglu and James F. Whidborne
For developing high-fidelity flight simulations, an accurate and complete representation of the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft is necessary. To obtain a realistic aerodynamic database, system identification methods can be used to describe th...
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Yanxin Yin, Ruiyang Lu, Jianxin Liu and Zhangfeng Huang
Temperatures within the boundary layers of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows can soar to thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees, leading to significant real gas phenomena. Although there has been significant research on real gas effects on hypersoni...
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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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Riccardo Cadamuro, Maria Teresa Cazzola, Nicolò Lontani and Carlo E. D. Riboldi
Sounding rockets constitute a class of rocket with a generally simple layout, being composed of a cylindrical center-body, a nosecone, a number of fins placed symmetrically around the longitudinal axis (usually three or four), and possibly a boat-tail. T...
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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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Yongchang Huang, Xiangying Guo and Dongxing Cao
Z-shaped folding wings have the potential to enhance the flight performance of an aircraft, contingent upon its mission requirements. However, the current scope of research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Z-shaped folding wings primarily focuses ...
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Stephen C. Medeiros
Mangroves are a natural feature that enhance the resilience of natural and built coastal environments worldwide. They mitigate the impacts of hurricanes by dissipating energy from storm surges and waves, as well as reducing wind speeds. To incorporate ma...
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Ruhao Hua, Qi Chen, Zhao Wan and Hao Chen
A body flap/RCS-integrated configuration is often used to achieve pitch trimming and controlled flight in near space for hypersonic vehicles. Under the high temperature and pressure load induced by the expansion wave at the nozzle exit, the body flap is ...
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Kun Mao, Wuxing Jing, Pan Cheng, Xiaoyan Liu, Yuchen Sun and Meihong Zhang
In this work, the enhanced correction factor technique (ECFT) is modified for a subsonic wing?body interference model, which can consider the forces on both the lifting boxes and the body elements of an idealized airplane, termed the advanced ECFT method...
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