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Xibei Gongye Daxue Xuebao, 2022 Based on the application requirements of a small hand-launched solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in flying wing configuration, the optimization design of the low Reynolds number (LRN) reflexed airfoil is carried out in this study to meet ...
WANG Kelei, ZHOU Zhou, GUO Jiahao, XU De
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Robust Optimization of Natural Laminar Flow Airfoil Based on Random Surface Contamination
Applied Sciences, 2022 Natural laminar-flow (NLF) airfoils are one of the most promising technologies for extending the range and endurance of aircrafts. However, there is a lack of methods for the optimization of airfoils based on the surface contamination that destroys the ...
Shunshun Wang, Zheng Guo
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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. +3 more
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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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Designs, 2022 An aerodynamic optimization for a Droop-Nose Leading-Edge (DNLE) morphing of a well-known UAV, the UAS-S45, is proposed, using a novel Black Widow Optimization (BWO) algorithm.
Musavir Bashir +3 more
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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 ...
Andy Keane +3 more
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Inexpensive airfoil shape optimization for vertical axis wind turbine and its validation
Journal of Fluid Science and Technology, 2015 In this research, an inexpensive aerodynamic shape optimization of airfoil is performed for Darrieus type vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT). Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) evaluations of various airfoil shapes are treated inexpensively by considering
Wataru YAMAZAKI, Yuta ARAKAWA
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An Improved Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Rotor Airfoil Design
Aerospace, 2023 In this study, a multi-objective aerodynamic optimization is performed on the rotor airfoil via an improved MOPSO (multi-objective particle swarm optimization) method.
Yongchuan Wu, Gang Sun, Jun Tao
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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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Using genetic algorithms to optimize airfoils in incompressible regime [PDF]
INCAS Bulletin, 2019 Aerodynamic optimization is a very actual problem in aircraft design and airfoils are basic two-dimensional shape forming cross sections of wings. Traditionally, the airfoil geometry if defined by a very large number of coordinates. Nowadays, in order to
Adrian DINA +3 more
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