A study of the turbulent wake of an airfoil in an air stream with a 90° curvature using hot-wire anemometry and large eddy simulation [PDF]
, 2008 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The broad aim of the work presented in this thesis is to investigate the wake of an airfoil under the combined effects of streamwise curvature and pressure ...
Farsimadan, Ehsaan
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Multi-objective design optimization for high-lift aircraft configurations supported by surrogate modeling [PDF]
, 2013 Nowadays, the competition among airlines seriously depend upon the saving operating costs, with the premise that not to degrade its services quality.
Li, Daxin
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Airfoil design via cubic splines - Ferguson's curves revisited [PDF]
, 2007 Few aerospace design topics have had so many pages devoted to them as airfoil parameterization. Claims of novelty must therefore be made with caution in this area, so we declare our starting point simply as a fresh perspective on legacy techniques ...
Sobester, Andras, Keane, Andy J.
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Aerodynamics of wind turbines [PDF]
, 2011 PhDThe study of rotor blade aerodynamic performances of wind tur- bine has been presented in this thesis. This study was focused on aero- dynamic effects changed by blade surface distribution as well as grid solution along the airfoil.
Emrah Kulunk, Horikiri, Kana
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Design of advanced airfoil for stall-regulated wind turbines [PDF]
Wind Energy Science, 2017 Nowadays, all the modern megawatt-class wind turbines make use of pitch control to optimise the rotor performance and control the turbine. However, for kilowatt-range machines, stall-regulated solutions are still attractive and largely used for their ...
F. Grasso +3 more
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Airfoil Inverse Design Method Based on Two-layer POD and BPNN
Hangkong gongcheng jinzhan, 2021 It is computationally intensive and time-consuming to perform a large number of CFD simulations in the process of airfoil optimization.In this paper, an airfoil inverse design method is developed by using the proper orthogonal decomposition(POD) and back
LI Chunna, JIA Xuyi, GONG Chunlin
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Study on Multimodality in Aerodynamic Airfoil Optimization Design
Hangkong gongcheng jinzhan, 2019 Studying on the multi-extremum characteristics of airfoil aerodynamic shape optimization design space is helpful for people to choose a reasonable optimization algorithm in the airfoil design stage, improve the optimization efficiency and shorten the ...
He Meng +3 more
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A novel shape optimization method using knot insertion algorithm in B-spline and its application to transonic airfoil design [PDF]
, 2011 A new method using the cubic B-spline curves with nominal uniform knot set to parameterize the geometry is proposed to deal with shape optimization problems.
Xu, B. +4 more
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An experimental study of airfoil instability tonal noise with trailing edge serrations [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents an experimental study of the effect of trailing edge serrations on airfoil instability noise. Detailed aeroacoustic measurements are presented of the noise radiated by an NACA-0012 airfoil with trailing edge serrations in a low to ...
Joseph, PF, Chong, TP
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Integral Airfoil Generation of Multi-rotor Aircraft Based on Optimization of Upper Wing Contour and CFD Simulation [PDF]
Journal of Applied Fluid MechanicsRegarding the airfoil optimization design of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles, this paper proposes an integral airfoil design method based on upper airfoil contour optimization. Firstly, by designing concave descent input curves with 0-1 distribution,
Z. Wang +4 more
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