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Peng Liao, Wei Song, Peng Du, Feng Feng and Yudong Zhang
With the increasing requirements for aerodynamic performance, aerodynamic configuration design of aircraft based on traditional design experience has gradually failed to meet the needs of the future. Therefore, the new concept aerodynamic shape design wi...
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Kelei Wang and Zhou Zhou
This paper describes the aerodynamic design and assessment of a blended-wing?body (BWB) configuration under the distributed electric propulsion (DEP) installation constraints. The aerodynamic design rationale and process is described, as well as how the ...
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Li Li, Lei Qiao, Jiakuan Xu and Junqiang Bai
Currently, the aviation industry is facing an oil and energy crisis and is contributing much more greenhouse gas emissions to the environment. Aircraft design approaches, such as aerodynamic shape optimization, new configuration concepts, and active cont...
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Carlo E. D. Riboldi and Alberto Rolando
Despite offering often significant advantages with respect to other flying machines, especially in terms of flight endurance, airships are typically harder to control. Technological solutions borrowed from the realm of shipbuilding, such as bow thrusters...
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Mohsen Rostami, Julian Bardin, Daniel Neufeld and Joon Chung
In considering aircraft design, it is very important to effectively size the tail configuration for stability and control. Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) focuses on the use of numerical optimization in the design of systems with multiple sub...
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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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Jiwon Son, Chankyu Son and Kwanjung Yee
Waverider is a hypersonic vehicle that improves the lift-to-drag ratio using the shockwave attached to the leading edge of the lifting surface. Owing to its superior aerodynamic performance, it exhibits a viable external configuration in hypersonic fligh...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia, Mario R. Chiarelli and Mario Bianchi
The development of novel aircraft concepts and propulsion technologies requires up-to-date physics-based methods and tools for conceptual aircraft design. In this context, a simulation model for the take-off manoeuvre is proposed in this article, to be e...
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Kai Wang, Zhonghua Han, Keshi Zhang and Wenping Song
Most existing aerodynamic shape optimization (ASO) studies do not take the balanced pitching moment into account and thus the optimized configuration has to be trimmed to ensure zero pitching moment, which causes additional drag and reduces the benefit o...
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Junyao Zhang, Hao Zhan and Baigang Mi
Submerged inlets have been widely used in advanced aircraft due to their excellent stealth characteristics, but they also suffer from poor aerodynamic performance. To improve the aerodynamic efficiency while maintaining stealth capabilities, this paper p...
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Vincenzo Cusati, Salvatore Corcione, Danilo Ciliberti and Fabrizio Nicolosi
This paper deals with the experimental assessment of the aerodynamic characteristics of an innovative large turboprop aircraft. The configuration is a three-lifting surfaces airplane with rear engine installation at tail tips, conceived to carry up to 13...
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Muhammad Hamza, Saima Bukhat Khan and Adnan Maqsood
The use of passive, active, or hybrid flow control techniques is often investigated to reduce the acoustic signature, wave drag, and aerodynamic heating associated with the supersonic flow regime. This research explores passive and hybrid flow control te...
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Yannian Yang, Yu Liang, Stefan Pröbsting, Pengyu Li, Haoyu Zhang, Benxu Huang, Chaofan Liu, Hailong Pei and Bernd R. Noack
In the near future, urban air mobility (UAM) will let an old dream of human society come true: affordable and fast air transportation for almost everyone. Among the various existing designs, the multicopter configuration best combines the advantages of c...
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Karim Abu Salem, Giuseppe Palaia, Alessandro A. Quarta and Mario R. Chiarelli
This paper presents a study on the aeromechanical characteristics of a box-wing aircraft configuration with a focus on stability, controllability, and the impact of aeromechanical constraints on the lifting system conceptual design. In the last decade, t...
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Yiran Liu, Boyi Chen, Jinbao Chen and Yanbin Liu
This paper investigates a rapid modeling method and robust analysis of hypersonic vehicles using multidisciplinary integrated techniques. First, the geometrical configuration is described using parametric methods based on the class?shape technique. Aerod...
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Hangwen Zhang, Bochen Li, Boyang Li and Cheng Yang
A numerical method is used to evaluate the influence of propeller parameters on the aerodynamic performance of shrouded coaxial dual rotors in hover. Compared with the open-rotor configuration, the shrouded rotors reduce the tip vortex, resulting in a hi...
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Yu Wang, Xiang Li, Tingjia Wu and Hailian Yin
Since the taper ratio of most wings is not equal to 1, the beam-disk trailing edge deflection mechanism originally designed for the rectangular wing is not fully applicable to the non-equal chord wing. Moreover, it is not only expected that the wing shap...
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Egidio D?Amato, Immacolata Notaro, Giulia Panico, Luciano Blasi, Massimiliano Mattei and Alessia Nocerino
In the last decade, the increasing use of NanoSats and CubeSats has made the re-entry capsule an emerging research field needing updates in configuration and technology. In particular, the door to advancements in terms of efficiency and re-usability has ...
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Estela Barroso-Barderas, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Rafael Bardera-Mora, Javier Crespo-Moreno and Juan Carlos Matías-García
This research focuses on the development of two bioinspired micro air vehicle (MAV) prototypes, based on morphing wings and wing grid wingtip devices. The morphing wings MAV tries to adapt the aerodynamics of the vehicle to each phase of flight by modify...
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Clayton Humphreys-Jennings, Ilias Lappas and Dragos Mihai Sovar
The Blended Wing Body (BWB) configuration is considered to have the potential of providing significant advantages when compared to conventional aircraft designs. At the same time, numerous studies have reported that technical challenges exist in many are...
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