Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 88 Issue 5

Editorial

D-Dalus VTOL – efficiency increase in forward flight

Meinhard Schwaiger, David Wills

This paper aims to provide the international aeronautical community with details of the development of a new disruptive technology for aircraft propulsion.

Aerodynamic design of gas turbine engine intake duct

Bambang I. Soemarwoto, Okko J. Boelens, Toni Kanakis

The purpose of this paper is to provide a design solution of an engine intake duct suitable for delivering air to the compressor of a gas turbine engine of a general aviation…

Influence of weak and strong gyroscopic effects on light aircraft dynamics

Zdobyslaw Jan Goraj, Ewa Cichocka

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of gyroscopic effects on the dynamic stability and the response of light aircraft to manoeuvres following either a rapid…

Optimal pitching schedules for a cycloidal rotor in hovering

Andrea Andrisani, Diego Angeli, Antonio Dumas

The purpose of this paper is to define an optimal pitching profile for the blades of a cycloidal rotor which minimizes the mean power consumption for a given mean thrust of the…

Implicit CFD methods for transitional shock wave – boundary layer interaction

George Zografakis, George Barakos

This paper aims to explore the potential of transition prediction methods for modelling transitional shock wave/boundary layer interactions. The study is fuelled by the strong…

PyPAD: a multidisciplinary framework for preliminary airframe design

Lorenzo Travaglini, Sergio Ricci, Giampiero Bindolino

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of an integrated framework suitable for preliminary airframe design, called PyPAD (Python module for Preliminary Aircraft…

Model updating of finite element model using optimisation routine

Bimo Prananta, Toni Kanakis, Jos Vankan, Rien van Houten

The present paper aims to describe the model updating of a small aircraft dynamic finite element model (FEM) to improve its agreement with ground vibration test (GVT) data.

On the active deformations of hybrid specimens

Mario Rosario Chiarelli, Vincenzo Binante, Stefano Botturi, Andrea Massai, Jan Kunzmann, Angelo Colbertaldo, Diego Giuseppe Romano

The purpose of this study concerns numerical studies and experimental validation of the mechanical behavior of hybrid specimens. These kinds of composite specimens are made up of…