A comparative pressure analysis of air flow between horizontal and V-Tail of UAV MALE of NACA0012H with speed variation

Riza, Rahmat; Kurniawan, Dicky; Wicaksono, Arif Budi

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201815401115

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Unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of a morphing tail configuration

Jiang,

Chen,

Yang

et al. 2024

Physics of Fluids

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Morphing aircraft is an important trend in the future development of next-generation aircraft. This paper focuses on aircraft with a small aspect ratio flying wing configuration that includes morphing tails. The unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the morphing tail configuration are numerically simulated using the unstructured overset grid technique and the dual-time method, focusing on the effects of the tail deflection angle over time, Mach number, and side slip angle on the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the entire aircraft and tails. The second derivative of the tail deflection angle with time should be continuous, and the maximum angular velocity and maximum angular acceleration should be minimized. The hysteresis loop area is closely related to the Mach number. The sideslip angle aggravates the nonlinearity of the unsteady aerodynamic characteristics of the entire aircraft. The unsteady aerodynamic characteristics during tail morphing are affected by static (wing downwash effect and projected area effect) and dynamic (flow field hysteresis effect, additional motion effect, and wall implication effect) characteristics. The enclosed research provides a reference for the aerodynamic and control system designs of morphing tail configurations.

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