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Alex T. Lefik, Romeo M. Marian and Javaan S. Chahl
There are flapping wing-style systems being developed by various institutions around the world. However, despite there being many systems that superficially appear robust, there is no viable flapping wing flying system at this time. We identified a gap i...
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Yoichi Suenaga and Kojiro Suzuki
This study examines the wing hinge oscillations in an aircraft concept that employs multiple wings, or small aircraft, chained at the wing tips through freely rotatable hinges with minimal structural damping and no mechanical position-locking system. Thi...
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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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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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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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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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Rejish Jesudasan, Ardeshir Hanifi and Raffaello Mariani
Wing-in-Ground (WIG) effect aircraft are gaining attention for their potential in reducing environmental impact. However, optimising wing planforms based solely on aerodynamics might improve performance while compromising static height stability of WIG a...
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