ATLANTA — Rocketail announced it will be making its two side wings, attached to improve a trailer’s aerodynamic flow, flexible upon contact. Bren Marshell, vice president of sales for Rocketail, said ...
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Grounded dreams: Northrop X-21A – the wing that breathed
Northrop X-21A tested laminar flow control to reduce drag and improve efficiency, proving the concept but canceled due to ...
Membrane wings in micro air vehicles (MAVs) represent a promising avenue for enhancing aerodynamic performance in low Reynolds number regimes. These flexible lifting surfaces, inspired by natural ...
In order to enhance aircraft efficiency designers are increasingly utilizing lightweight, high aspect ratio wing designs. This is because lower weight means less energy is required to keep the ...
Researchers once wanted to build aircraft wings based on compliant systems, which would continually change shape in response to the air flow resistance, obviating the need for rigid flap and rudder ...
Flow control techniques and aerodynamic improvements developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology could save the U.S. trucking industry hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel per year. Recent ...
To better understand the aerodynamic mechanisms of the wings during 3 different stages, authors used CFD methods to analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of the coupled movements of the 5 kinematic ...
The objective of the European Cleansky project is to develop new technologies for future aircraft enabling a 20- 30% fuel burn reduction and related CO2 emissions and a similar reduction in noise ...
From an original article by Dr. Steve Liddle CEng FRAeS, Vulcan to the Sky Trustee and Principal Aerodynamicist at Visa Cash App RB F1 Team Aerodynamics at the Edge: How Innovation Shaped the Avro ...
Michael "Miki" Amitay, the James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has received a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to ...
The dorsal S-duct inlet of a HALE blended wing body UAV faces complex unsteady disturbances during operation. This study ...
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