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Rajpal, D. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)High aspect ratio strut braced aircraft can significantly reduce the induced drag. The inherent anisotropic behaviour of the composite material along with their weight saving potential can improve the performance of the aircraft during the flight. Thus, a composite strut braced aircraft is one of the promising candidates to achieve the...conference paper 2019
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Natella, M. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper presents a unified framework for aeroelastic tailoring of fully-flexible free-flying composite aircraft. A continuous-time state-space model is used to describe the flow. The 3D composite wing structure is condensed into a Timoshenko beam model utiliz-ing a cross-sectional modeler. The aerodynamic and structural models are tightly...conference paper 2019
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Sarma, R. (author)The growing demand for energy worldwide has resulted in the exploration and<br/>development of sustainable forms of energy, such as wind energy. Wind turbines<br/>are typically used to extract power from the wind through the rotational motion<br/>of blades, which are aeroelastic structures. Among other practical examples, aircraft wings are also...doctoral thesis 2018
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Mancini, Andrea (author)The need to reduce the pollutant impact of aircraft emission drives the research on aircraft design progress through off-design performance improvement. This report proposes to investigate the effect of maneuver load alleviation technology via wing control surfaces. A methodology is presented to model the MLA technology in aircraft conceptual...master thesis 2018
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)The proposed approach in this paper aims to bring the accuracy of CFD to quick linear aeroelastic simulations for structural sizing. This is achieved by deriving reduced-order models (ROM) of the aircraft movables, gust loads and manoeuvres loads from rigid CFD analysis and to use these as substitutes for the loads in the aeroelastic simulation....conference paper 2018
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Khan, Muhammad Arsalan (author)Modern wind turbines frequently operate at off-design conditions during their life cycle. They undergo dynamic loads characterized by unsteady aerodynamics. Predicting these unsteady aerodynamic loads has been very difficult due to the non-linear nature of unsteady aerodynamics. Especially when operating near the stall region, these turbine are...master thesis 2018
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- Gillebaart, E. (author) doctoral thesis 2018
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Bussemaker, Jasper (author)Improving the performance of large transport aircraft requires high aspect ratio and lightweight wings, making aeroelasticity an important factor in wing structural design. Active control of aeroelastic loads can be used to improve the aeroelastic behavior of the wing.<br/><br/>Two active load control techniques are considered: Maneuver Load...master thesis 2018
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Meddaikar, M.Y. (author), Dillinger, J.K.S. (author), Sodja, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper presents the application of aeroelastic tailoring in the design of flying demonstrator wings. The work is part of the Flutter Free Flight Envelope eXpansion (FLEXOP) project, funded under the Horizon 2020 framework. The project involves the design, manufacturing and flight-testing of a UAV toward two principle goals: i) to demonstrate...conference paper 2018
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Werter, N.P.M. (author)In order to accommodate the growth in air traffic whilst reducing the impact on the environment, operational efficiency is becoming more and more important in the design of the aircraft of the future. A possible approach to increase the operational efficiency of aircraft wings is the use of aeroelastic tailoring, by taking advantage of the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Dicholkar, Antariksh (author)Material bend-twist coupling has been widely studied in the research community as a passive control mechanism for a wind turbine. However, there is a lack of research in incorporating it in the rotor design process, with little research being conducted for its application to small wind turbines. The present study focuses on this issue by...master thesis 2017
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van Rooij, A.C.L.M. (author)Aerodynamic non-linearities, such as shock waves, boundary layer separation or boundary layer transition, may cause an amplitude limitation of the oscillations induced by the fluid flow around a structure. These aeroelastic limit-cycle oscillations (LCOs) resulting from aerodynamic non-linearities have been studied numerically in this PhD thesis...doctoral thesis 2017
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Lonsain, J. (author)Aeroelastic analyses traditionally consider the airfoil of a wing to remain rigid, only allowing deformation in the span-wise direction of the wing. Recent investigations have shown the benefits of adding chord-wise flexibility in the trailing edge of a wing, however so far only two-dimensional studies have been carried out. Therefore, the...master thesis 2017
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Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Werter, N.P.M. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)This paper summarises the design of a gust generator and the comparison between high fidelity numerical results and experimental results. The gust generator has been designed for a low subsonic wind tunnel in order to perform gust response experiments on wings and assess load alleviation. Special attention has been given to the different...journal article 2017
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- Bernhammer, L.O. (author), Navalkar, S.T. (author), Sodja, J. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Karpel, M (author) journal article 2017
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Bordogna, M.T. (author), Bettebghor, Dimitri (author), Blondeau, Christophe (author), De Breuker, R. (author)The main objective of this paper is to propose an aeroelastic optimization approach capable of performing structural sizing optimization considering structural and aerodynamic constraints. The proposed approach uses a detailed FE model of a composite wing with shell elements in order to obtain realistic weight estimation and structural...conference paper 2017
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Sodja, J. (author), Roizner, Federico (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Karpel, M. (author)The first experimental application of the Parametric Flutter Margin method for identification of aeroelastic instabilities is presented. The experiment was performed in two steps using a two degree-of-freedom wing model mounted in the wind tunnel. First, the reference flutter and divergence conditions were found by increasing the airstream...conference paper 2017
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Bordogna, M.T. (author), Lancelot, P.M.G.J. (author), Bettebghor, Dimitri (author), De Breuker, R. (author)In the present paper the authors want to investigate the effect of different load configuration in order to identify the ones driving the optimization. A set of static loads, gust loads and static loads with maneuver load alleviation (MLA) are tested. Gust loads have been included in the optimization via an equivalent static load (ESL)....conference paper 2017
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- Van Dooren, R.M. (author) master thesis 2016
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Westerveld, D. (author)Aircraft wings are becoming more flexible, making it important to take this flexibility into account from the start of the design process. With flexible wings, unsteady (time-varying) aerodynamics becomes important. For this reason, an unsteady aerodynamics model was constructed and coupled to an aeroelastic flight mechanics tool. This allows...master thesis 2016