Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 91 Issue 8

Leakage flow analysis in the gas turbine shroud gap

Filip Wasilczuk, Pawel Flaszynski, Piotr Kaczynski, Ryszard Szwaba, Piotr Doerffer, Krzysztof Marugi

The purpose of the study is to measure the mass flow in the flow through the labyrinth seal of the gas turbine and compare it to the results of numerical simulation. Moreover the…

Numerical analysis of hub cavity leakage

Ye Xia, Yadong Xie, Danwang Li, Wenjie Wang

This paper aims to predict the effect of the hub cavity leakage on the overall performance with numerical simulations in the fan/booster of a high bypass ratio turbofan engine.

Digital holography interferometry for measuring the mass diffusion coefficients of N2 in RP-3 and RP-5 jet fuels

Shiyu Feng, Chaoyue Li, Xiaotian Peng, Lei Shao, Weihua Liu

The purpose of this study is to measure the mass diffusion coefficient of nitrogen in jet fuel using digital holography interferometry for cost-effective designing and modeling of…

The effects of flow separation on a lambda wing aerodynamics

Mehdi Dadkhah, Mehran Masdari, Mohammad Ali Vaziri, Mojtaba Tahani

In this paper, experimental and numerical results of a lambda wing have been compared. The purpose of this paper is to study the behaviour of lambda wings using a CFD tool and to…

Aeroelastic stability analysis of hingeless rotor blades in hover using fully intrinsic equations and dynamic wake model

Mohammadreza Amoozgar, Hossein Shahverdi

This paper aims to develop a new approach for aeroelastic analysis of hingeless rotor blades.

High redundancy electromechanical actuator for thrust vector control of a launch vehicle

Biju Prasad B., Biju N., Radhakrishna Panicker M.R.

The purpose of this paper is to design an electromechanical actuator which can inherently tolerate a stuck or loose failure without any need for fault detection isolation and…

Blade stacking and clocking effects in two-stage high-pressure axial turbine

Kaddour Touil, Adel Ghenaiet

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the blade–row interaction and investigate the effects of axial spacing and clocking in a two-stage high-pressure axial turbine.

Inertia parameter identification of anunknown captured space target

Xiaofeng Liu, Bangzhao Zhou, Boyang Xiao, Guoping Cai

The purpose of this paper is to present a method to obtain the inertia parameter of a captured unknown space target.

Numerical study of boundary layer transition using intermittency model

Massoud Tatar, Mojtaba Tahani, Mehran Masdari

In this paper, the applicability of shear stress transport k-ω model along with the intermittency concept has been investigated over pitching airfoils to capture the laminar…