What is it about?
This work presents a fast mathematical method to predict the airflow around aircraft wings. In the early stages of the design of aircraft, there are thousands of unknown variables. Engineers are interested in testing rapidly different configurations without going into the small details of the airflow. The main assumption that is made to lower the computational cost of numerical predictions is to neglect viscosity of the air which can sometimes lead to poor predictions. This work presents a numerical method which takes into account viscous effects in the flow, through a viscous-inviscid interaction scheme, while remaining accurate and computationally very efficient.
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Why is it important?
The methodology presented in this paper can be used to improve the design of aircraft.
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I am thrilled about my paper on aircraft design! I hope this paper can help simplifying processes to boost economic viability and ecological sustainability in aerospace. I hope it brings positive changes in the industry.
Paul Dechamps
Universite de Liege
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This page is a summary of: Three-dimensional pseudo-unsteady viscous-inviscid interaction for wings in transonic flow, January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2024-1947.
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