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Volume 6, 2013
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, Control, Fault Detection, and Avionics
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| Page(s) | 619 - 634 | |
| Section | Flexible aircraft control | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201306619 | |
| Published online | 02 December 2013 | |
Influencing the aerodynamics of the ACFA2020 aircraft with flap and trailing edge device oscillations
Technische Universität München, Institute of
Aerodynamics and Fluidmechanics, 15 Boltzmannstraβe, Garching
85748,
Germany
The influence of an oscillating aileron and trailing edge device on the unsteady aerodynamics of a blended wing body (BWB) aircraft configuration with high-fidelity time-accurate Euler simulations has been investigated. Steady results show an unequally-distributed lift distribution in spanwise direction with a particularly severe shock at cruise conditions on the outboard wing. Unsteady oscillations of the outboardlocated aileron are able to influence the local and global aerodynamics. The oscillation of the trailing edge device designed to be at trailing edge of the aileron does not show any great effect on neither local nor global aerodynamics.
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