Minimizing induced drag with lift distribution and wingspan

WF Phillips, DF Hunsaker, JJ Joo - Journal of Aircraft, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Minimum induced drag for fixed gross weight and wingspan is obtained from the elliptic lift
distribution. However, minimum induced drag for steady level flight is not obtained by …

Variable camber compliant wing-wind tunnel testing

CR Marks, L Zientarski, AJ Culler, B Hagen… - 23rd AIAA/AHS …, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
I. Introduction he United States Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a novel
adaptive Variable Camber Compliant Wing (VCCW) that can actively re-contour the airfoil …

Minimising induced drag with weight distribution, lift distribution, wingspan, and wing-structure weight

WF Phillips, DF Hunsaker, JD Taylor - The Aeronautical Journal, 2020 - cambridge.org
Because the wing-structure weight required to support the critical wing section bending
moments is a function of wingspan, net weight, weight distribution, and lift distribution, there …

Performance analysis of composite laminates wing skin with the aid of fluid structure interaction of aerodynamic loading-structural analysis

EI Basri, AA Basri, S Balakrishnan… - … Based Design of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in today's technology have led to the use of composite materials with their
advantages of significant high strength with lightweight structure in aircraft design …

A methodology for roll control of morphing aircraft

ZS Montgomery, DF Hunsaker, JJ Joo - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
II. Introduction odern aircraft attempt to incorporate the latest advances that technology has
to offer. Future aircraft will be no different, employing the best materials and technologies …

Analytic and computational analysis of wing twist to minimize induced drag during roll

DF Hunsaker, ZS Montgomery… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Geometric and/or aerodynamic wing twist can be used to produce a lift distribution that
results in a rolling moment. A decomposed Fourier-series solution to Prandtl's lifting-line …

Drag characterization study of variable camber continuous trailing edge flap

UK Kaul, NT Nguyen - Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2018 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) computational study was conducted to
investigate the effect of various variable camber continuous trailing edge flap (VCCTEF) …

Adverse-yaw control during roll for a class of optimal lift distributions

DF Hunsaker, ZS Montgomery, JJ Joo - AIAA Journal, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Lifting-line theory has formed the basis of wing-design understanding for nearly a century.
This theory has previously been used to develop a class of optimal lift distributions that …

Aerodynamic Efficiency Analysis of Morphing Wings Relative to Non-Morphing Wings

ZS Montgomery, DF Hunsaker, JJ Joo - AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2020 - arc.aiaa.org
Advancing materials and manufacturing technologies have progressed allowing the
construction of morphing wings that are able to continuously vary certain airfoil parameters …

Lifting-line analysis of wing twist to minimize induced drag during pure rolling motion

DF Hunsaker, ZS Montgomery, JJ Joo - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, 2019 - arc.aiaa.org
Wing twist was originally used by Orville and Wilbur Wright to manipulate the spanwise lift
distribution for roll control [1, 2]. Shortly thereafter, this method was replaced with the …