Special Issue "Advances in Aerospace Sciences and Technology II"

A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
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School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, James Watt Building South, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK
Interests: aerodynamic technologies; flow and flight control systems; shock physics; aerospace design and optimization; flow diagnostics
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue collects feature papers (original research articles or comprehensive review papers) in aerospace research fields. Highly experienced practitioners from various fields within the journal’s scope (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/about) are welcome to contribute papers, highlighting the latest developments in their research area or a detailed summary of their own work done thus far. All papers to be published in this collection will be solicited and selected by the guest editor; a very high standard will be set in the selection of prospective authors and submitted papers, and those papers will be published, free of charge, in Open Access after peer review on condition that no valid rejection report is received during the peer-review process.

The submission deadline for this round of call for papers is 31 November 2021.

Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis
Guest Editor

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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Keywords

  • Aerospace
  • Aeronautics
  • Astronautics
  • Aviation
  • Aerodynamics

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Investigation of Reynolds Number Effects on Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Transport Aircraft
Aerospace 2021, 8(7), 177; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace8070177 - 01 Jul 2021
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The scale difference between the real flight vehicle and the experimental model results in the Reynolds number effect, which makes it unreliable to predict the aerodynamic characteristics of flight vehicles by wind tunnel testing. To understand the mechanism of Reynolds number effects on [...] Read more.
The scale difference between the real flight vehicle and the experimental model results in the Reynolds number effect, which makes it unreliable to predict the aerodynamic characteristics of flight vehicles by wind tunnel testing. To understand the mechanism of Reynolds number effects on the aerodynamic characteristics of the supercritical wing that is commonly used in transport aircraft in more detail, surface pressure wind tunnel tests of a transport aircraft reference model with a wing-body configuration were conducted in the European Transonic Windtunnel (ETW) at different Reynolds numbers. There are 495 pressure taps in total equipped on the surface of the test model with the Mach numbers ranging from 0.6 to 0.86 and Reynolds number varying from 3.3 × 106 to 35 × 106. In addition, an in-house developed CFD tool that has been validated by extensive experimental data was used to correct the wing deformation effect of the test model and achieve detailed flow structures. The results show that the Reynolds number has a significant impact on the boundary layer displacement thickness, surface pressure distribution, shock wave position, and overall aerodynamic force coefficients of the transport aircraft in the presence of shock wave and the induced boundary layer separation. The wind tunnel data combined with flow fields achieved from CFD show that the essence of the Reynolds number effect on the aerodynamic characteristics of transport aircraft is the difference of boundary layer development, shock wave/boundary layer interaction, and induced flow separation at different Reynolds numbers. Full article
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