S environmental concerns grow and gas prices rise, the need for more efficient transonic
transports becomes increasingly prevalent. Industry and research partners work to keep up …

I. Introduction s the cost of fuel continues to increase over time and concern for the
environment drives acceptable levels of emissions lower, the goal of reducing drag and the …

The present article analyses the turbulent flow around a supercritical aerofoil at high
Reynolds number and in the transonic regime, involving shock-wave/boundary-layer …

A knowledge-based aerodynamic design method, CDISC, has been extended to enable the
computational design of transonic cruise slotted wings for commercial transport aircraft. The …

The design of the hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) system involves the comprehensive
design of the suction control and the profile, and it has become an urgent problem for a three …

Previous flight research programs have sampled laminar flow control at a single control
point, usually a cruise condition. In the case of the presently discussed swept-wing-glove …

The Subsonic Aircraft Roughness Glove Experiment is an in-flight experiment designed to
meet the NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation project requirements. The goal of the …

When a laminar boundary layer is subjected to an adverse pressure gradient, laminar
separation bubbles can occur. At low Reynolds numbers, the bubble size can be substantial …

The Flight Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University has proposed conducting both
natural laminar flow and passive laminar flow control flight-test experiments through NASA's …

Previous flight research programs have sampled laminar flow control at a single control
point, usually a cruise condition. Tucker, et al.[1],[2] developed a laminar flow control flight …