NASA is playing an important role in the development of the urban air mobility ecosystem by identifying key research areas and establishing a fleet of conceptual reference vehicles for urban air mobility applications. This paper delves deeper into the study of NASA’s six-passenger tiltwing air taxi aerodynamics using high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations. NASA’s OVERFLOW flow solver has been loosely-coupled with the rotorcraft comprehensive analysis code CAMRAD II. Dual-time stepping, high-order accurate schemes, and the delayed detached-eddy simulation are employed. The tiltwing configuration is analyzed in airplane and helicopter mode, with flight conditions representative of an air taxi mission. Airloads, wake geometry, and performance are studied to identify the unique flow features of this configuration. NASA’s tiltwing vehicle is one of the conceptual designs intended to focus and guide NASA’s research activities in support of aircraft development for vertical take-off and landing air taxi operations.


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    Title :

    High-Fidelity Simulations of a Tiltwing Vehicle for Urban Air Mobility


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    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD, US


    Publication date :

    2023-01-23


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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