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Aircraft Design (SI-1/2017)

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017) | Viewed by 53820

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Dr. Mohammad Sadraey

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School of Engineering, Technology, and Aeronautics, Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N River Road, Manchester, NH 03106, USA
Interests: aircraft design; flight dynamics; robust control; unmanned aircraft; automatic flight control systems

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This journal is devoted to reporting advancements in the science and technology associated with aircraft design through the dissemination of original archival research papers disclosing new theoretical developments and/or experimental results. The context of the journal includes fixed-wing aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicle, remotely controlled aircraft, model aircraft, and special mission aircraft in all categories of general aviation, transport, and military. The context of the journal also includes new concepts, such as flying cars, solar-powered aircraft, air–space planes, and human-powered aircraft. All three levels of design; i.e., conceptual design, preliminary design, and detail design are considered.

The topics include design techniques, design approaches, design process, design evaluation, design metrics, design challenges, lessons learned, configuration design, design groups management, trade-off study, feasibility analysis, prioritization, revolutionary design concepts, design alternatives, legal liability, design project planning, decision making, design formulation, design requirements, design constraints, system development, system life-cycle, interaction between design and manufacturing technology, design software packages, design documentations, design standards, innovation in design, design conflicts, and design framework. Papers also are sought which review recent research developments in component design, such as wing, fuselage, horizontal tail, vertical tail, landing gear, propulsion system, control surfaces, and high lift devices.

Dr. Mohammad Sadraey
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • aircraft design techniques
  • design approaches
  • design process
  • design evaluation
  • design challenges
  • configuration design
  • design groups
  • trade-off study
  • feasibility analysis
  • prioritization
  • revolutionary design concepts
  • design alternatives
  • design project planning
  • decision making
  • design formulation
  • design requirements
  • design constraints
  • system development
  • interaction between design and manufacturing technology
  • design software packages
  • design standards
  • innovation in design
  • design conflicts
  • design framework

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Bio-Inspired Flexible Flapping Wings with Elastic Deformation
by Tien Van Truong, Quoc-Viet Nguyen and Heow Pueh Lee
Aerospace 2017, 4(3), 37; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace4030037 - 15 Jul 2017
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Over the last decades, there has been great interest in understanding the aerodynamics of flapping flight and development of flapping wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs). The camber deformation and twisting has been demonstrated quantitatively in a number of insects, but making artificial wings [...] Read more.
Over the last decades, there has been great interest in understanding the aerodynamics of flapping flight and development of flapping wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAVs). The camber deformation and twisting has been demonstrated quantitatively in a number of insects, but making artificial wings that mimic those features is a challenge. This paper reports the development and characterization of artificial wings that can reproduce camber and twisting deformations. By replacing the elastic material at the wing root vein, the root vein would bend upward and inward generating an angle of attack, camber, and twisting deformations while the wing was flapping due to the aerodynamic forces acting on the wing. The flapping wing apparatus was employed to study the flexible wing kinematics and aerodynamics of real scale insect wings. Multidisciplinary experiments were conducted to provide the natural frequency, the force production, three-dimensional wing kinematics, and the effects of wing flexibility experienced by the flexible wings. The results have shown that the present artificial wing was able to mimic the two important features of insect wings: twisting and camber generation. From the force measurement, it is found that the wing with the uniform deformation showed the higher lift/power generation in the flapping wing system. The present developed artificial wing suggests a new guideline for the bio-inspired wing of the FWMAV. Full article
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Parametric Approach to Assessing Performance of High-Lift Device Active Flow Control Architectures
by Yu Cai, Zhenyu Gao, Imon Chakraborty, Simon Briceno and Dimitri Mavris
Aerospace 2017, 4(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace4010006 - 10 Feb 2017
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Active Flow Control is at present an area of considerable research, with multiple potential aircraft applications. While the majority of research has focused on the performance of the actuators themselves, a system-level perspective is necessary to assess the viability of proposed solutions. This [...] Read more.
Active Flow Control is at present an area of considerable research, with multiple potential aircraft applications. While the majority of research has focused on the performance of the actuators themselves, a system-level perspective is necessary to assess the viability of proposed solutions. This paper demonstrates such an approach, in which major system components are sized based on system flow and redundancy considerations, with the impacts linked directly to the mission performance of the aircraft. Considering the case of a large twin-aisle aircraft, four distinct active flow control architectures that facilitate the simplification of the high-lift mechanism are investigated using the demonstrated approach. The analysis indicates a very strong influence of system total mass flow requirement on architecture performance, both for a typical mission and also over the entire payload-range envelope of the aircraft. Full article
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Climate-Compatible Air Transport System—Climate Impact Mitigation Potential for Actual and Future Aircraft
by Katrin Dahlmann, Alexander Koch, Florian Linke, Benjamin Lührs, Volker Grewe, Tom Otten, Doreen Seider, Volker Gollnick and Ulrich Schumann
Aerospace 2016, 3(4), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace3040038 - 17 Nov 2016
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Aviation guarantees mobility, but its emissions also contribute considerably to climate change. Therefore, climate impact mitigation strategies have to be developed based on comprehensive assessments of the different impacting factors. We quantify the climate impact mitigation potential and related costs resulting from changes [...] Read more.
Aviation guarantees mobility, but its emissions also contribute considerably to climate change. Therefore, climate impact mitigation strategies have to be developed based on comprehensive assessments of the different impacting factors. We quantify the climate impact mitigation potential and related costs resulting from changes in aircraft operations and design using a multi-disciplinary model workflow. We first analyze the climate impact mitigation potential and cash operating cost changes of altered cruise altitudes and speeds for all flights globally operated by the Airbus A330-200 fleet in the year 2006. We find that this globally can lead to a 42% reduction in temperature response at a 10% cash operating cost increase. Based on this analysis, new design criteria are derived for future aircraft that are optimized for cruise conditions with reduced climate impact. The newly-optimized aircraft is re-assessed with the developed model workflow. We obtain additional climate mitigation potential with small to moderate cash operating cost changes due to the aircraft design changes of, e.g., a 32% and 54% temperature response reduction for a 0% and 10% cash operating cost increase. Hence, replacing the entire A330-200 fleet by this redesigned aircraft ( M a c r = 0.72 and initial cruise altitude (ICA) = 8000 m) could reduce the climate impact by 32% without an increase of cash operating cost. Full article
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Numerical Investigation of Effect of Parameters on Hovering Efficiency of an Annular Lift Fan Aircraft
by Yun Jiang and Bo Zhang
Aerospace 2016, 3(4), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace3040035 - 19 Oct 2016
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The effects of various parameters on the hovering performance of an annular lift fan aircraft are investigated by using numerical scheme. The pitch angle, thickness, aspect ratio (chord length), number of blades, and radius of duct inlet lip are explored to optimize the [...] Read more.
The effects of various parameters on the hovering performance of an annular lift fan aircraft are investigated by using numerical scheme. The pitch angle, thickness, aspect ratio (chord length), number of blades, and radius of duct inlet lip are explored to optimize the figure of merit. The annular lift fan is also compared with a conventional circular lift fan of the same features with the same disc loading and similar geometry. The simulation results show that the pitch angle of 27°, the thickness of 4% chord length, the aspect ratio of 3.5~4.0, 32 blades, and the radius of inlet lip of 4.7% generate the maximum figure of merit of 0.733. The optimized configuration can be used for further studies of the annular lift fan aircraft. Full article
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Constructal Theory and Aeroelastic Design of Flexible Flying Wing Aircraft
by Pezhman Mardanpour and Siavash Rastkar
Aerospace 2017, 4(3), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace4030035 - 7 Jul 2017
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The aeroelastic behavior of high-aspect-ratio very flexible flying wing is highly affected by the geometric nonlinearities of the aircraft structure. This paper reviews the findings on how these nonlinearities influence the structural and flight dynamics, and it shows that the aeroelastic flight envelope [...] Read more.
The aeroelastic behavior of high-aspect-ratio very flexible flying wing is highly affected by the geometric nonlinearities of the aircraft structure. This paper reviews the findings on how these nonlinearities influence the structural and flight dynamics, and it shows that the aeroelastic flight envelope could significantly be extended with proper choices of design parameters such as engine placement. Moreover, in order to investigate the physics behind the effects of design parameters, constructal theory of design is reviewed. The constructal theory advances the philosophy of design as science, it states that the better structural design emerges when stress flow strangulation is avoided. Furthermore, it shows that airplanes, through their evolution, have obeyed theoretical allometric rules that unite their designs. Full article
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