Aircraft Aerodynamic Design and Analysis
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Aerospace Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2027 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluid mechanics; CFD; shape design; drag breakdown; farfield methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aerodynamic challenges in modern aircraft design are continuously growing, due to the increasing demand for a greener aviation and, at the same time, for improved performance competitiveness of the next generation fleet. New, often disruptive, configurations are emerging and, alongside, traditional ones are also being reshaped, introducing, for example, smart trailing edges with morphing movables, active or passive flow control devices, highly integrated distributed power-plant systems, advanced laminar flow solutions and/or surface riblets.
A predictive capability, at multi-fidelity levels, on the aerodynamic force experienced during the different flight phases is therefore of paramount importance, combined with shape optimisation approaches and often integrated in multi-disciplinary frameworks. Digital design tools can nowadays exploit cutting-edge high-performance computing infrastructures, with unsteady analyses of moving parts and/or scale-resolving flow simulations now becoming affordable at design refinement stages. Furthermore, force decomposition methods, including thrust/drag bookkeeping techniques, are increasingly being introduced in aerodynamic analyses, bringing breakdown information to fine-tune design objective functions.
This Special Issue will therefore address, although not being restricted to, the following main topics:
- Multi-fidelity aerodynamic shape design optimisation.
- Drag reduction in aeronautics (focusing on induced, viscous and/or wave contributions).
- Flow control and shape-varying solutions to improve aircraft performance.
- Advanced machine learning approaches in aircraft design loops.
Research articles proposing original and innovative work are encouraged, but review papers or comparative studies are also welcome.
Dr. Mauro Minervino
Dr. Domenico Quagliarella
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- aerodynamics
- CFD
- shape optimisation
- drag
- drag decomposition
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