Download or read book Blended Wing Body Bwb Boundary Layer Ingestion Bli Inlet Configuration and System Studies written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study was conducted to determine the potential reduction in fuel burned for BLI (boundary layer ingestion) inlets on a BWB (blended wing body) airplane employing AFC (active flow control). The BWB is a revolutionary type airplane configuration with engines on the aft upper surface where thick boundary layer offers the greatest opportunity for ram drag reduction. AFC is an emerging technology for boundary layer control. Several BLI inlet configurations were analyzed in the NASA-developed RANS Overflow CFD code. The study determined that, while large reductions in ram drag result from BLI, lower inlet pressure recovery produces engine performance penalties that largely offset this ram drag reduction. AFC could, however, enable a short BLI inlet that allows surface mounting of the engine which, when coupled with a short diffuser, would significantly reduce drag and weight for a potential 10% reduction in fuel burned. Continuing studies are therefore recommended to achieve this reduction in fuel burned considering the use of more modest amounts of BLI coupled with both AFC and PFC (Passive Flow Control) to produce a fail-operational system. Kawai, Ronald T. and Friedman, Douglas M. and Serrano, Leonel Langley Research Center NASA/CR-2006-214534
Download or read book Power Based Study of Boundary Layer Ingestion for Aircraft Application written by Peijian Lv and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research on Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI). BLI is an aircraft-engine integration technique that aims at integrating the aircraft and the propulsion system such that the overall aircraft fuel consumption can be reduced. In this research, theoretical analysis suggests that the minimization of total power consumption should be used as a design criterion for aircraft utilizing BLI rather than focusing on the minimization of drag. Numerical simulations are performed, and the simulation results are processed using the PBM to support the theoretical analysis. Furthermore, an experimental study is carried out with a focus on the power conversion processes involved for a propulsor operating in the wake. Stereoscopic PIV is employed in order to visualize the flow and understand the physics. The so-called Power-based Method is used to quantify the power conversion mechanisms. The results prove that the dominant mechanism responsible for the efficiency enhancement is due to the utilization of body wake energy by the wake ingesting propeller. In short, the importance of wake energy flow rate in understanding the BLI phenomenon is highlighted. This book will be useful for researchers in the field of aircraft propulsion, aircraft aerodynamics, and airframe propulsion integration.
Download or read book Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft written by Martin Kozek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the potential of the blended wing body (BWB) concept for significant improvement in both fuel efficiency and noise reduction and addresses the considerable challenges raised for control engineers because of characteristics like open-loop instability, large flexible structure, and slow control surfaces. This text describes state-of-the-art and novel modeling and control design approaches for the BWB aircraft under consideration. The expert contributors demonstrate how exceptional robust control performance can be achieved despite such stringent design constraints as guaranteed handling qualities, reduced vibration, and the minimization of the aircraft’s structural loads during maneuvers and caused by turbulence. As a result, this innovative approach allows the building of even lighter aircraft structures, and thus results in considerable efficiency improvements per passenger kilometer. The treatment of this large, complex, parameter-dependent industrial control problem highlights relevant design issues and provides a relevant case study for modeling and control engineers in many adjacent disciplines and applications. Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft presents research results in numeric modeling and control design for a large, flexible, civil BWB aircraft in the pre-design stage as developed within the EU FP7 research project ACFA 2020. It is a useful resource for aerospace and control engineers as it shows the complete BWB aircraft modeling and control design process, carried out with the most recent tools and techniques available. presents research results in numeric modeling and control design for a large, flexible, civil BWB aircraft in the pre-design stage as developed within the EU FP7 research project ACFA 2020. It is a useful resource for aerospace and control engineers as it shows the complete BWB aircraft modeling and control design process, carried out with the most recent tools and techniques available. Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
Download or read book Green Aviation written by Ramesh Agarwal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Aviation is the first authoritative overview of both engineering and operational measures to mitigate the environmental impact of aviation. It addresses the current status of measures to reduce the environmental impact of air travel. The chapters cover such items as: Engineering and technology-related subjects (aerodynamics, engines, fuels, structures, etc.), Operations (air traffic management and infrastructure) Policy and regulatory aspects regarding atmospheric and noise pollution. With contributions from leading experts, this volume is intended to be a valuable addition, and useful resource, for aerospace manufacturers and suppliers, governmental and industrial aerospace research establishments, airline and aviation industries, university engineering and science departments, and industry analysts, consultants, and researchers.
Download or read book AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit 42nd written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engine Design Implications for a Blended Wing body Aircraft with Boundary Later Ingestion written by Christopher Joseph Hanlon and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Proceedings of the 2021 Asia Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology APISAT 2021 Volume 1 written by Sangchul Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 1027 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceeding comprises peer-reviewed papers of the 2021 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Aerospace Technology (APISAT 2021), held from 15-17 November 2021 in Jeju, South Korea. This book deals with various themes on computational fluid dynamics, wind tunnel testing, flow visualization, UAV design, flight simulation, satellite attitude control, aeroelasticity and control, combustion analysis, fuel injection, cooling systems, spacecraft propulsion and so forth. So, this book can be very helpful not only for the researchers of universities and academic institutes, but also for the industry engineers who are interested in the current and future advanced topics in aerospace technology.
Download or read book Beyond Tube and Wing written by Bruce Larrimer and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerial Robots written by Omar D Lopez Mejia and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few years ago, the topic of aerial robots was exclusively related to the robotics community, so a great number of books about the dynamics and control of aerial robots and UAVs have been written. As the control technology for UAVs advances, the great interaction that exists between other systems and elements that are as important as control such as aerodynamics, energy efficiency, acoustics, structural integrity, and applications, among others has become evident. Aerial Robots - Aerodynamics, Control, and Applications is an attempt to bring some of these topics related to UAVs together in just one book and to look at a selection of the most relevant problems of UAVs in a broader engineering perspective.
Download or read book Distributed Propulsion Technology written by Amir S. Gohardani and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed propulsion technology is one of the revolutionary candidates for future aircraft propulsion. In this book, which serves as the very first reference book on distributed propulsion technology, the potential role of distributed propulsion technology in future aviation is investigated. Following a historical journey that revisits distributed propulsion technology in unmanned air vehicles, commercial aircrafts, and military aircrafts, features of this specific technology are highlighted in synergy with an electric aircraft concept and a first-of-its-kind comparison between commercial and military aircrafts employing distributed propulsion arrangements. In light of propulsionairframe integration and complementary technologies, such as boundary layer ingestion, thrust vectoring and circulation control, transpired opportunities and challenges are addressed in addition to a number of identified research directions proposed for future aircrafts. Moreover, a diverse set of distributed propulsion arrangements are considered. These include: small engines, gas-driven multi-fan architectures, turboelectric systems featuring superconductive and non-superconducting electrical machine technology, and electromagnetic fans. This book features contributions by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Air Force (USAF), and includes the first proposed official definition for distributed propulsion technology in subsonic fixed wing aircrafts.
Download or read book Journal of Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quantification of the Boundary Layer Ingestion Benet for the D8 series Aircraft Using a Pressure Rake System written by Michael K. Lieu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents the results of experiments carried out at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) 14'x22' Subsonic Wind Tunnel to determine the aerodynamic boundary layer ingestion (BLI) benet for the D8 aircraft advanced transport concept. The experiments involved a back-to-back comparison between two D8 aircraft configurations: a podded propulsion system (non-BLI) and a fuselage integrated propulsion system (BLI). The BLI benet was evaluated from ow surveys upstream and downstream of the propulsor using a rotating rake system for the two configurations. The BLI benefit, defined as the mechanical flow power saving at cruise conditions (zero net streamwise force), from the BLI configuration relative to the non-BLI configuration, was found to be 8.2% +/- 0:8%. The experimental-computational approach and the sensitivity analysis of the estimated BLI benefit to uncertainties such as flow angles and instrumentation errors are described in the thesis. The benefits and drawbacks of the rotating rake measurement technique used in the D8-series powered model aircraft experiments are also discussed.
Download or read book Propulsion and Power written by Joachim Kurzke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is written for engineers and students who wish to address the preliminary design of gas turbine engines, as well as the associated performance calculations, in a practical manner. A basic knowledge of thermodynamics and turbomachinery is a prerequisite for understanding the concepts and ideas described. The book is also intended for teachers as a source of information for lecture materials and exercises for their students. It is extensively illustrated with examples and data from real engine cycles, all of which can be reproduced with GasTurb (TM). It discusses the practical application of thermodynamic, aerodynamic and mechanical principles. The authors describe the theoretical background of the simulation elements and the relevant correlations through which they are applied, however they refrain from detailed scientific derivations.
Download or read book Multidisciplinary Methods for Performing Trade Studies on Blended Wing Body Aircraft written by Cory Asher Kays and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) is becoming an essential tool for the design of engineering systems due to the inherent coupling between discipline analyses and the increasing complexity of such systems. An important component of MDO is effective exploration of the design space since this is often a key driver in finding characteristics of systems which perform well. However, many design space exploration techniques scale poorly with the number of design variables and, moreover, a large-dimensional design space can be prohibitive to designer manipulation. This research addresses complexity management in trade-space exploration of multidisciplinary systems, with a focus on the conceptual design of Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft. The objectives of this thesis are twofold. The first objective is to create a multidisciplinary tool for the design of BWB aircraft and to demonstrate the performance of the tool on several example trade studies. The second objective is to develop a methodology for reducing the dimension of the design space using designer-chosen partitionings of the design variables describing the system. The first half of this thesis describes the development of the BWB design tool and demonstrates its performance via a comparison to existing methods for the conceptual design of an existing BWB configuration. The BWB design tool is then demonstrated using two example design space trades with respect to planform geometry and cabin bay arrangement. Results show that the BWB design tool provides sufficient fidelity compared to existing BWB analyses, while accurately predicting trends in system performance. The second half of this thesis develops a bi-level methodology for reducing the dimension of the design space for a trade space exploration problem. In this methodology, the designer partitions the design vector into an upper- and lower-level set, wherein the lower-level variables essentially serve as parameters, in which their values are chosen via an optimization with respect to some lower-level objective. This reduces the dimension of the design space, thereby allowing a more manageable space for designer interaction, while subsequently ensuring that the lower-level variables are set to "good" values relative to the lower-level objective. The bi-level method is demonstrated on three test problems, each involving an exploration over BWB planform geometries. Results show that the method constructs surrogate models in which the sampled configurations have a reduction in the system objective by up to 4 % relative to surrogates constructed using a standard exploration. Furthermore, the problems highlight the potential for the framework to reduce the dimension of the design space such that the full space can be visualized.
Download or read book Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering written by Giuseppe Buttazzo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering conference held in Erice, Italy in September 2007 at International School of Mathematics, Guido Stampacchia provided a platform for aerospace engineers and mathematicians to discuss the problems requiring an extensive application of mathematics. This work contains papers presented at the workshop.
Download or read book Intake Aerodynamics written by J. Seddon and published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics). This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Intake Aerodynamics, Second Edition" presents computational advancements and discoveries in intake aerodynamics. A companion volume to "Practical Intake Aerodynamic Design," this important text considers the problem of airflow, both internal and external to air intake, as applied to civil and military aircraft. It covers the aerodynamics of subsonic and supersonic intakes in real flows, maintaining a progression through the transonic range. Also considered is the joint perspective of the airframe designer and the propulsion specialist in practical cases. Readers will gain insight into the fluid mechanics behind the deceleration of air from free stream to engine velocity, and an understanding of air compression and external drag in extensively revised chapters reflecting progress in the field. More than 300 drawings and diagrams help to illustrate the points defined throughout the book. Copublished with Blackwell Science Ltd. Outside the United States and Canada, order from Blackwell Science Ltd., United Kingdom, tel 44 1865 206 206.
Download or read book How Mechanics Shaped the Modern World written by David Allen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book presents a nontechnical view of the history of mechanics, from the Big Bang to present day. The impact of mechanics on the evolution of a variety of subjects is vividly illustrated, including astronomy, geology, astrophysics, anthropology, archeology, ancient history, Renaissance art, music, meteorology, modern structural engineering, mathematics, medicine, warfare, and sports. While enormous in scope, the subject matter is covered (with ample photographic support) at a level designed to capture the interest of both the learned and the curious. The book concludes with a creative and thoughtful examination of the current state of mechanics and possibilities for the future of mechanics.
