The effect of folding wingtips on the worst-case gust loads of a simplified aircraft model

D Balatti, H Haddad Khodaparast… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, the development of lighter and more efficient transport aircraft has led to an
increased focus on gust load alleviation. A recent strategy is based on the use of folding …

Experimental analysis of the dynamics of flared folding wingtips via a novel tethered flight test

F Healy, A Pontillo, D Rezgui, JE Cooper, J Kirk… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1757. vid Recent developments in
morphing wing technologies are routinely tested using Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

On the effect of geometric nonlinearity on the dynamics of flared folding wingtips

F Healy, R Cheung, D Rezgui, J Cooper, T Wilson… - Journal of Aircraft, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
Recent studies have considered the use of flared folding wingtips (FFWTs) to enable higher
aspect ratios—reducing overall induced drag—while reducing gust loading and meeting …

Experimental and numerical nonlinear stability analysis of wings incorporating flared folding wingtips

F Healy, R Cheung, D Rezgui, J Cooper, T Wilson… - Journal of Aircraft, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Recent studies have considered the use of wings incorporating flared folding wingtips
(FFWTs) to enable higher aspect ratios (reducing overall induced drag) while also reducing …

On the nonlinear geometric behaviour of flared folding wingtips

F Healy, RC Cheung, D Rezgui, JE Cooper… - AIAA Scitech 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0656. vid Recent studies have
considered the use of flared folding wingtips (FFWTs) to enable higher aspect ratios …

Nonlinear stability analysis and experimental exploration of limit cycle oscillations with flared folding wingtips

F Healy, RC Cheung, D Rezgui, JE Cooper - AIAA Scitech 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0657. vid Recent studies have
considered the use of Flared Folding Wingtips (FFWTs) to enable higher aspect ratios …

Experimental analysis of the behaviour of flared folding wingtips with sideslip angle

F Healy, RCM Cheung… - 19th International …, 2022 - research-information.bris.ac.uk
A concept of growing interest in recent years is that of the Flared Folding Wingtip (FFWT),
which can be used in-flight to reduce airframe loading due to gust encounters and augment …

Experimental Effect of Liquid Sloshing on the Dynamic Behaviour of Flared Folding Wingtips

F Healy, JJ De Courcy, H Gu, D Rezgui… - AIAA SCITECH 2023 …, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2023-2569. vid A wind tunnel experiment
is presented that studies the static and dynamic aeroelastic behaviour of a``floating wingtip …

Simulation on Buffet Response and Mitigation of Variant-Tailed Aircraft in Maneuver State

D Liu, P Zhang, B Lv, H Guo, L Yu, Y Chen, B Lu - Vibration, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study proposes a computational fluid dynamics and computational structure dynamics
(CFD/CSD) coupled method for calculating the buffet response of a variant tail wing. The …

Coupled Aerodynamics–Structure Analysis and Wind Tunnel Experiments on Passive Hinge Oscillation of Wing-Tip-Chained Airplanes

Y Suenaga, K Suzuki - Aerospace, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study examines the wing hinge oscillations in an aircraft concept that employs multiple
wings, or small aircraft, chained at the wing tips through freely rotatable hinges with minimal …