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  • Pan, Yingjun; Guo, Shijun; Whidborne, James F.; Huang, Xun (Elsevier, 2024-03-29)
    Drawing inspiration from insect flapping wings, a Flapping Wing Rotor (FWR) has been developed for Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) applications. The FWR features unique active flapping and passive rotary kinematics of motion ...
  • Chen, Si; Wang, Le; He, Yuanyuan; Tong, Mingbo; Pan, Yingjun; Ji, Bing; Guo, Shijun (IEEE, 2021-09-22)
    The present work was based on an experimental study on the aerodynamic performance of a flapping wing rotor (FWR) and enhancement by passive pitching angle variation (PPAV) associated with powered flapping motion. The PPAV ...
  • Pawsey, Lucas; Rajendran, David John; Pachidis, Vassilios (Cambridge University Press, 2017-07-13)
    The rotor sub-assembly of the high-pressure turbine of a modern turbofan engine is typically free to move downstream because of the force imbalance acting on the disc and blades following an un-located shaft failure. This ...
  • Kittiyoungkun, S (2011-09-09)
    Unmanned Air Vehicles, UAVs are designed to operate without any onboard controllers. Consequently, they are considered to operate in a wide range of applications. Missions in undesirable conditions such as bad weather ...
  • Oram, C. E. (1989-09)
    Blade aerodynamic loads during operation of a wind turbine are poorly understood. Better measurements of these forces are needed for the design of more cost effective turbines. Existing estimates have been inferred from ...
  • Ehirim, O H (2018-04)
    This study involved experimental and equivalent computational investigations into the automobile-type 3―D flow physics of a diffuser bluff body in ground-effect and novel passive flow-control methods applied to the diffuser ...
  • Swarthout, Avery E.; MacManus, David G.; Tejero, Fernando; Matesanz García, Jesús; Goulos, Ioannis; Boscagli, Luca; Sheaf, Christopher T. (IEEE, 2023-06-08)
    Next generation ultra-high bypass ratio turbofans may have larger fan diameters than the previous generation of aircraft engines. This will potentially increase the nacelle diameter and may incur penalties to the weight ...
  • Ehirim, Obinna; Knowles, Kevin; Saddington, A. J.; Finnis, Mark V. (Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2018-04-19)
    A ground-effect diffuser is an upward-sloping section of the underbody of a racing car that enhances aerodynamic performance by increasing the downforce, thus improving tire grip. The downforce generated by a diffuser can ...
  • Boscagli, Luca; Christie, Robert; MacManus, David; Piovesan, Tommaso (Elsevier, 2022-09-05)
    The next generation of turbofan aero-engines are likely to have an increase in fan diameter to reduce the specific thrust and increase the overall propulsive efficiency. More compact nacelles with possibly shorter intakes ...
  • Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T.; Grech, Nicholas (AIAA, 2016-01-02)
    Small internal combustion engines, particularly those ranging in power from 1 kW to 10 kW, propel many remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) platforms that play an increasingly significant role in the Department of Defense. ...
  • Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T.; Christie, Robert (Sage Publications, 2016-02-24)
    This paper describes current progress in the development of methods to assess aero-engine airframe installation effects. The aerodynamic characteristics of isolated intakes, a typical transonic transport aircraft as well ...
  • Robinson, Matthew H. (2018-02)
    This thesis deals with the aerodynamics of aero-engine nacelles with a focus on the influence of a short and slim nacelle design on the drag performance. As turbofan engines are designed with increasingly reduced specific ...
  • Prince, Simon A. (Cranfield University, 1999-09)
    The focus of this work is the investigation of the complex compressible flow phenomena associated with high speed aerial weapons. A three dimen- sional multiblock finite volume flow solver was developed with the aim ...
  • Stańkowski, Tomaz Piotr (2016-09)
    Over the past years, the fan diameter of a turbofan engine for commercial aircraft tended to increase and based on the requirement to improve the propulsive efficiency it is expected that the engine diameter will continue ...
  • Petterson, Kristian (2001-08)
    High angle-of-attack aerodynamics has been the focus of much attention as a result of the drive to increase combat aircraft manoeuverability and thereby improve survivability. A key factor in this regime is the behaviour ...
  • McLelland, Grant (Cranfield University, 2013-12)
    The potential impact of inlet flow distortion on the stability and performance of aircraft engines remains a key concern for engine-airframe integration. Current and future configurations, such as Unmanned Combat Air ...
  • Bang, Chris Sungkyun; Rana, Zeeshan; Könözsy, László Z.; Rodriguez, Veronica M.; Temple, Clive (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021-11-20)
    The present work focuses on an advanced coupling of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural analysis (FEA) on the aeroelastic behaviour of a single element inverted composite wing with the novelty of including ...
  • Bang, Chris Sungkyun (Cranfield UniversitySATM, 2021-08)
    The present research focuses on an advanced coupling of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and structural analysis (FEA) on the aeroelastic behaviour of a multi-element inverted composite wing with the novelty of including ...
  • Banerjee, J. R. (1978-09)
    The symmetric flutter and response characteristics of a class of tailless .sailplanes-:are investigated combining rigid--body dynamics with elastic modes of deformation. The methods used are based on the normal mode approach ...
  • Li, Daochun; Guo, Shijun J.; Xiang, Jinwu (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, 2010-10-31)
    Nonlinearities in aircraft mechanisms are inevitable, especially in the control system. It is necessary to investigate the effects of them on the dynamic response and control performance of aeroelastic system. In this ...