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Westheim, Michael (author)Interest in powered flight on Mars has been growing in recent years, and as such new developments are being made in determining the effects the Martian atmosphere has on the flow physics and performance, specifically with regards to similarity parameters: the Reynolds number & the Mach number. This paper aimed to investigate whether the...master thesis 2022
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van Arnhem, N. (author)It is envisioned that the future generations of regional and short to medium-range aircraft employ a high level of propeller integration to achieve low-emission flight. The objectives of unconventional propeller installations include the enhancement of the airframe aerodynamic efficiency, increasing the propeller efficiency, improving cabin...doctoral thesis 2022
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Jux, C. (author)Particle image velocimetry (PIV) is the state of the art for quantitative, full-field, 3D flow diagnostics. Despite the maturity of the technique, two bottlenecks are identified which are addressed in this thesis: the achievable measurement volume size, and the optical access to geometrically complex objects. Both aspects are well illustrated...doctoral thesis 2022
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Costa Fernandez, José Luis (author)The technical advancements achieved during the last decade have permitted the implementation of low-fidelity numerical methods to analyze simplified aeroelastic problems. However, the available computational power is still incapable of dealing with more realistic events involving complex structural dynamics and flow regimes. For this reason,...master thesis 2022
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Spoelstra, A.M.C.M.G. (author)The research presented in this thesis introduces a new measurement concept for on-site aerodynamic measurements based on large-scale stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (stereo-PIV) measurements past an athlete, a vehicle or an object travelling through a quiescent environment. The analysis of the momentumdeficit past the transit poses the...doctoral thesis 2022
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DELFOSSE, Alexandre (author)Since 2019, the FAA and the EASA impose to all airline pilots to follow, as part of their training, a stall and recovery training. To mitigate the risks, this training takes place in ground-based simulators. To make it happen, models of the aircraft behaviour at high angle of attack need to be developed. Among the different modeling approaches...master thesis 2022
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Barara, Daamanjyot (author)To cater to the increasing demand in short-range passenger air transport and the research in electric and hybrid aircraft, there is a renewed interest in the research of propellers. Propellers are known to have high aerodynamic efficiency, which translates to lower fuel burn in comparison to other jet engines, making it an attractive option for...master thesis 2022
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Koutsoukos, Alexandros (author)The Advisory Council of Aviation Research has set the future goals of sustainable development in aviation by reducing pollutant emissions of CO2 by 75% and 90% in NOx emissions per passenger kilometre and noise emission by 65% of the perceived noise level compared with the measurements in 2000. This demand has led to the development of new...master thesis 2022
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de Vries, R. (author)Recent developments in the field of hybrid-electric propulsion (HEP) have opened the door to a wide range of novel aircraft configurations with improved energy efficiency. These electrically-driven powertrains enable “distributed propulsion” configurations, in which the aerodynamic interaction between the propulsive devices and the airframe is...doctoral thesis 2022
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Zhang, Boyang (author), Sun, Xiuxia (author), Liu, Shuguang (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Deng, Xiongfeng (author)In contrast with most existing results concerning unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wherein two-degree or only attitude/longitudinal dynamics are considered, this article proposes an event-triggered cooperative synchronization fault-tolerant control (FTC) methodology for multiple fixed-wing UAVs whose dynamics are six-degree-of-freedom (DOF)...journal article 2022
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De Tavernier, D. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), Goude, Anders (author)This chapter highlights the main aerodynamic phenomena and challenges of vertical-axis wind turbines. First, an introduction is provided on the VAWT history and (dis-)advantages. The basics of VAWT aerodynamics and the various rotor simplifications/representations are presented. Further, the state-of-the art aerodynamic modeling techniques,...book chapter 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Avallone, F. (author), Watson, S.J. (author)In recent years, with the development of the wind power industry and the increase in the number of wind turbines, the condition monitoring of blades and the detection of damage are increasingly important. In this work, a new non-contact damage-detection approach is experimentally investigated based on the measurement of airfoil aerodynamic noise...journal article 2022
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Dong, J. (author), Viré, A.C. (author), Li, Zhangrui (author)In our previous study, the vortex ring state (VRS) prediction criteria were introduced from helicopter's realm and applied to floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs). The existence of the VRS on FOWTs was also successfully predicted. However, the prediction criteria we used have not been verified by comparing them with similar studies because...journal article 2022
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Xu, Wenfeng (author), Li, Yinghui (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Pei, Binbin (author)This paper investigates the problems of modeling and control of the morphing aircraft. Henceforth, a nonlinear dynamic model of a wing-sweep morphing aircraft is first established in this work. This model is suitable for larger envelopes by elaborating the variation of aerodynamic coefficients, air density, mass distribution at different...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Boyang (author), Sun, Xiuxia (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Liu, Shuguang (author), Li, Le (author)In contrast with most existing results concerning unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wherein material points or only attitude/longitudinal dynamics are considered, this article proposes a distributed fixed-time fault-tolerant control methodology for networked fixed-wing UAVs whose dynamics are six-degree-of-freedom with twelf-state-variables...journal article 2022
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Lv, Maolong (author), Li, Yongming (author), Pan, W. (author), Baldi, S. (author)This article proposes a fuzzy adaptive design solving the finite-time constrained tracking for hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs). Actuator dynamics and asymmetric time-varying constraints are considered when solving this problem. The main features of the proposed design lie in 1) introducing a novel piecewise but differentiable switching...journal article 2022
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Smith, Lloyd (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author)While baseball is a popular sport with a storied history, the aerodynamic properties of the seamed sports ball are not fully understood. Reported aerodynamic baseball behaviors are primarily based on force measurements from wind tunnels. The following describes a methodology to measure baseball drag in free flight from changes in its speed. The...journal article 2022
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Su, Zikang (author), Wang, X. (author), Wang, Honglun (author)This article contrives a neural-adaptive constrained controller of the cable towed air-ground recovery system subject to terrain obstacles, unmeasurable cable tensions, trailing vortex, wind gust, and actuator saturation. In air-ground recovery system modeling, the towed vehicle's nominal 6 DOF affine nonlinear dynamics and the cable system's...journal article 2022
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Mertens, C. (author), Costa Fernandez, J.L. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), van Oudheusden, B.W. (author)The aeroelastic response of a highly flexible wing to periodic gust excitation is determined experimentally. The integrated optical measurement approach that is applied provides combined measurements of the structural response of the wing and the unsteady flow field around it. The aeroelastic loads acting on the wing are derived from these...conference paper 2022
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Fehrs, Michael (author), Ritter, Markus (author), Helm, Sebastian (author), Mertens, C. (author)The Pazy Wing test case is a benchmark for the investigation of aeroelastic effects at very large deflections. Tip deformations in the order of 50% span were measured in wind tunnel tests, which renders this model highly attractive for the validation of numerical aeroelastic methods and tools for geometrically nonlinear, large deflection...conference paper 2022