Analysis of Verification Elements of Safety Docking Control for Air Refueling
The aerial refueling is a kind of complex system engineering, and the influencing factors are closely related to the tanker and the receiver. Due to the special layout of single wing, large wingspan, high vertical tail and large landing gear fairing on ...
WANG Zhao +3 more
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Aerodynamic Exploration for Tandem Wings with Smooth or Corrugated Surfaces at Low Reynolds Number
Skin corrugation and tandem configuration are two distinct features that characterize the flow around dragonfly wings. In contrast to the smooth airfoil and single pair of wings of conventional airplanes, corrugated surfaces and tandem wings influence ...
Qing Zhang, Rongrong Xue, Heng Li
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The aerodynamic configuration design of wide-range hypersonic vehicle has become one of the research hotspots. The new aerodynamic configuration of high-pressure capturing wing (HCW) can meet the requirements of high volume ra-tio, high lift and high ...
Yao XIAO +4 more
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Aerodynamic Design, Analysis and Validation of a Small Blended-Wing-Body Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
This paper describes the aerodynamic design and assessment of a blended-wing–body (BWB) configuration under the distributed electric propulsion (DEP) installation constraints.
Kelei Wang, Zhou Zhou
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Numerical Investigation of the Aerodynamic Properties of a Flying Wing Configuration [PDF]
The numerical investigations of a generic UCAV configuration are presented. These investigations are part of the DLR internal project UCAV-2010. Compressible speed conditions are considered and presented.
Andreas Schutte +5 more
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Aerodynamic optimization of a large PrandtlPlane configuration [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to present design procedures and tools for the aerodynamic optimization of a large freighter aircraft with a PrandtlPlane configuration. Suitable optimization tools have been developed and are shortly described in the paper; sensitivity analyses for high speed flight conditions have been performed, and, also, low speed ...
Cappelli, Lorenzo +5 more
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Aerodynamic Optimization of an Over-the-Wing-Nacelle-Mount Configuration
An over-the-wing-nacelle-mount airplane configuration is known to prevent the noise propagation from jet engines toward ground. However, the configuration is assumed to have low aerodynamic efficiency due to the aerodynamic interference effect between a ...
Daisuke Sasaki, Kazuhiro Nakahashi
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Numerical Investigation of the Rotor-Rotor Aerodynamic Interaction for eVTOL Aircraft Configurations
The rotor-rotor aerodynamic interaction is one of the key phenomena that characterise the flow and the performance of most of the new urban air mobility vehicles (eVTOLs) developed in the recent years.
Riccardo Piccinini +2 more
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Aerodynamics Analysis of Speed Skating Helmets: Investigation by CFD Simulations
In this work, we investigate the flow field around speed skating helmets and their associated aerodynamic drag by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. An existing helmet frequently used in competition was taken as a baseline.
Guillermo Puelles Magán +2 more
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Research on the influence of deicing airbag and simplified model on aerodynamic characteristics
As a common deicing system for turboprop aircraft,it is of great significance to evaluate the influence of deicing airbag on the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft. Based on the aerodynamic deicing system installed on one aircraft,simulating the
CHEN Lu, MA Yumin, LI Yan
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