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Stavros Kapsalis, Chris Bliamis, Pavlos Kaparos, Pericles Panagiotou and Kyros Yakinthos
The current work investigates the effect of canard geometric characteristics on the performance of a lightweight flying wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), capable of both conventional and Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) flight. The canards are size...
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Caleb Robb and Ryan Paul
This paper presents the aerodynamic modeling of a flying wing featuring Ludwig Prandtl?s bell spanload. The aerodynamic models are developed using a medium fidelity vortex-lattice method and using a Reynolds-Averaged Navier?Stokes computational fluid dyn...
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Xiaowei Cai, Chun Zhang and Baoshou Wang
This paper focuses on the application of a cross-flow fan (CFF) to generate propulsion for a submersible aircraft with a flying wing configuration. A numerical method is established to simulate the CFF operating both in the air and underwater. This paper...
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Shuai Hao, Tielin Ma, Yi Wang, Huadong Li, Shiwei Zhao and Puxue Tan
SensorCraft is an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system that integrates unmanned flight platforms and airborne antenna arrays. Under gust loads, the high?aspect?ratio, light?wing structure of SensorCraft has considerable bending and...
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José D. Hoyos, Camilo Echavarría, Juan P. Alvarado, Gustavo Suárez, Juliana A. Niño and Jorge I. García
An aero-structural algorithm to optimize a flying wing in cruise conditions for preliminary design is developed using two-way interaction between the structure and aerodynamics. A particle swarm routine is employed to solve the multi-objective optimizati...
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Liqi Zhang and Yonghui Zhao
Based on measured gust information, a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) adaptive feed-forward control scheme for gust load alleviation (GLA) on a semi-span flying-wing aircraft using multiple control surfaces is proposed. In order to remedy weight drift an...
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Zian Wang, Lei Hu, Wanghua Fei, Dapeng Zhou, Dapeng Yang, Chenxi Ma, Zheng Gong, Jin Wu, Chengxi Zhang and Yi Yang
This paper focuses on the triaxial augmentation ability of the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) technique on the tailless layout with a fully moving wing tip to achieve high control performance for the supersonic tailless aircraft. Firstly, th...
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Yuhang Ma, Jiecheng Du, Tihao Yang, Yayun Shi, Libo Wang and Wei Wang
Robust optimization design (ROD) is playing an increasingly significant role in aerodynamic shape optimization and aircraft design. However, an efficient ROD framework that couples uncertainty quantification (UQ) and a powerful optimization algorithm for...
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Peng Lin, Jifei Wu, Lianshan Lu, Neng Xiong, Dawei Liu, Jichuan Su, Guangyuan Liu, Yang Tao, Junqiang Wu and Xueqiang Liu
The effect of the Reynolds number on the flying wing common research model with a large sweep angle and small aspect ratio is studied by numerical simulation. The helicity cross-flow transition correction of the Langtry?Menter model is established in vie...
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Pengcheng Cui, Guiyu Zhou, Yaobing Zhang, Hongyin Jia, Xiaojun Wu, Mingsheng Ma, Huan Li and Bing Chen
The internal weapon bay is widely used in modern aircraft; however, because the unsteady flows of the cavity would cause dangerous store separation and intense aerodynamic noise, the leading-edge spoiler is an easy and efficient passive flow-control meth...
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