Dr Oliviu Sugar-Gabor O.Sugar-Gabor@salford.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
The paper presents the results of the aerodynamic optimisation of an Unmanned Aerial System's wing using a morphing approach. The shape deformation of the wing is achieved by placing actuator lines at several positions along its span. For each flight condition, the optimal displacements are found by using a combination of the new Artificial Bee Colony algorithm and a classical gradient-based search routine. The wing aerodynamic characteristics are calculated with an efficient nonlinear lifting line method coupled with a two-dimensional viscous flow solver. The optimisations are performed at angles of attack below the maximum lift angle, with the aim of improving the Hydra Technologies UAS-S4 wing lift-to-drag ratio. Several configurations of the morphing wing are proposed, each with a different number of actuation lines, and the improvements obtained by these configurations are analysed and compared.
Sugar-Gabor, O., Koreanschi, A., & Botez, R. (2016). Analysis of UAS-S4 Éhecatl aerodynamic performance improvement using several configurations of a morphing wing technology. Aeronautical Journal, 120(1231), 1337-1364. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2016.61
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jun 7, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Mar 10, 2017 |
Journal | The Aeronautical Journal |
Print ISSN | 0001-9240 |
Electronic ISSN | 2059-6464 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Volume | 120 |
Issue | 1231 |
Pages | 1337-1364 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2016.61 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aer.2016.61 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/aeronautical-journal |
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