Recent developments in the aeroelasticity of morphing aircraft

RM Ajaj, MS Parancheerivilakkathil… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents an extensive review of the developments in the aeroelasticity of
morphing aircraft that occurred in the last decade (from 2009 to 2020). It focuses mainly on …

A review on evolution of aeroelastic assisted wing

P Sivanandi, C Gupta, H Durai - International Journal of Aeronautical and …, 2023 - Springer
Aeroelastic wings have a significant capacity like normal flyers, to improve the aircraft's
overall performance and maneuverability. It is a plugin that allows changing the airfoil-level …

Folding wingtips for improved roll performance

F Healy, R Cheung, T Neofet, M Lowenberg… - Journal of Aircraft, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Future aircraft designs look set to use longer wingspans to increase the aspect ratio and
therefore overall aerodynamic efficiency of the airframe. Such larger wingspans also reduce …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and numerical investigation of an aircraft wing with hinged wingtip for gust load alleviation

D Balatti, HH Khodaparast, MI Friswell… - Journal of Fluids and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A recent consideration in aircraft design is using hinged wing tip devices to increase the
aspect ratio, improving aircraft performance. Moreover, numerical studies have suggested …

Sizing of high-aspect-ratio wings with folding wingtips

H Gu, F Healy, D Rezgui, J Cooper - Journal of Aircraft, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
High-aspect-ratio wings are of particular interest to modern aircraft design due to the
inherent reduction in induced drag that they provide. However, such wing configurations …

Passive gust alleviation of a flying-wing aircraft by analysis and wind-tunnel test of a scaled model in dynamic similarity

S He, S Guo, Y Liu, W Luo - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
An investigation was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a passive gust alleviation
device (PGAD) installed in a flying-wing aircraft of 62.3 m wing span at large swept back …

Strain-based geometrically nonlinear beam formulation for rigid–flexible multibody dynamic analysis

K Otsuka, Y Wang, R Palacios, K Makihara - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Geometrically nonlinear strain-based beam formulation has the potential to analyze flexible
slender components in multibody systems efficiently owing to the minimum number of …

Unsteady aeroelastic analysis of the semi aeroelastic hinge including local geometric nonlinearities

P Mastracci, F Saltari, F Mastroddi, T Wilson… - AIAA Journal, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
A recent consideration in aircraft design is the use of folding wing tips, with the aim of
enabling higher aspect ratio wings with less induced drag but also meeting airport gate …

Actuated adaptive wingtips on transport aircraft: Requirements and preliminary design using pressure-actuated cellular structures

P Meyer, H Traub, C Hühne - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Folding wingtip technologies are in the focus of research for their potential to significantly
reduce the induced drag of transport aircraft by increasing the wing's aspect ratio in flight …

Quasi-steady aeroelastic analysis of the semi-aeroelastic hinge including geometric nonlinearities

C Conti, F Saltari, F Mastroddi, T Wilson… - Journal of Aircraft, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
A recent consideration in aircraft design is the use of folding wingtips, with the aim of
enabling higher-aspect-ratio wings with less induced drag but also meeting airport gate …