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David Communier, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez and Tony Wong
This paper presents the design and wind tunnel testing of a morphing camber system and an estimation of performances on an unmanned aerial vehicle. The morphing camber system is a combination of two subsystems: the morphing trailing edge and the morphing...
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Zhigang Wang and Yu Yang
This research focuses on the morphing leading edge design, which can be applied in a morphing wing for future civil aircraft.
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Andrea Magrini, Ernesto Benini, Rita Ponza, Chen Wang, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast, Michael I. Friswell, Volker Landersheim, Dominik Laveuve and Conchin Contell Asins
In the context of ambitious targets for reducing environmental impact in the aviation sector, dictated by international institutions, morphing aircraft are expected to have potential for achieving the required efficiency increases. However, there are sti...
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Zhenkai Zhang, Alessandro De Gaspari, Sergio Ricci, Chen Song and Chao Yang
This article presents a gradient-based aerodynamic optimization framework and investigates optimum deformations for a transonic airfoil equipped with morphing leading and trailing edges. Specifically, the proposed optimization framework integrates an inn...
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Charalampos Themistokleous, Nikolaos-Grigorios Markatos, John Prospathopoulos, Vasilis Riziotis, Giorgos Sieros and George Papadakis
Morphing offers an attractive alternative compared to conventional hinged, multi-element high lift devices. In the present work, morphed shapes of a NACA 64A010 airfoil are optimized for maximum lift characteristics. Deformed shapes of the leading and tr...
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Srinivas Vasista, Johannes Riemenschneider, Ralf Keimer, Hans Peter Monner, Felix Nolte and Peter Horst
A design for a new high lift system that features a morphing wing leading edge ?droop nose? has the potential to generate high lift coefficients whilst mitigating airframe noise emissions. This seamless, continuous, and stepless flexible droop nose poten...
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Behzad Amirsalari and Joana Rocha
Airflow-induced noise prediction and reduction is one of the priorities for both the energy and aviation industries. This review paper provides valuable insights into flow-induced noise computation, prediction, and optimization methods with state-of-the-...
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Zikang Jin, Zonghan Yu, Fanshuo Meng, Wei Zhang, Jingzhi Cui, Xiaolong He, Yuedi Lei and Omer Musa
The parametric design method is widely utilized in the preliminary design stage for hypersonic vehicles; it ensures the fast iteration of configuration, generation, and optimization. This study proposes a novel parametric method for a wide-range, wing-mo...
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Peter L. Bishay, James S. Kok, Luis J. Ferrusquilla, Brian M. Espinoza, Andrew Heness, Antonio Buendia, Sevada Zadoorian, Paul Lacson, Jonathan D. Ortiz, Ruiki Basilio and Daniel Olvera
Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies. Morphing technology aims to replace conventiona...
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Sijia Jia, Zhenkai Zhang, Haibo Zhang, Chen Song and Chao Yang
This paper introduces the realization and wind tunnel testing of a novel variable camber wing equipped with compliant morphing trailing edges. Based on the aerodynamic shape and compliant mechanisms that were optimized in advance, a wind tunnel model cal...
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Joseph Watkins and Abdessalem Bouferrouk
This paper presents initial results on the aeroacoustic and aerodynamic effects of morphing the trailing-edge flap of the 30P30N aerofoil, over five flap deflections (5?25°), at an 8° angle of attack and a Reynolds number of Re=9.2×105" role="pr...
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