New propulsive architectures, with high interactions with the aerodynamic performance of the platform, are an attractive option for reducing the power consumption, increasing the resilience, reducing the noise and improving the handling of fixed-wing unmanned air vehicles. Distributed electric propulsion with boundary layer ingestion over the wing introduces extra complexity to the design of these systems, and extensive simulation and experimental campaigns are needed to fully understand the flow behaviour around the aircraft. This work studies the effect of different combinations of propeller positions and angles of attack over the pressure coefficient and skin friction coefficient distributions over the wing of a 25 kg fixed-wing remotely piloted aircraft. To get more information about the main trends, a proper orthogonal decomposition of the coefficient distributions is performed, which may be even used to interpolate the results to non-simulated combinations, giving more information than an interpolation of the main aerodynamic coefficients such as the lift, drag or pitching moment coefficients.


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    Titel :

    Propeller Position Effects over the Pressure and Friction Coefficients over the Wing of an UAV with Distributed Electric Propulsion: A Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Analysis


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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