Aerodynamic Aeroelasticity and Aeroacoustics of Rotorcraft

Dear Colleagues,

A modern rotorcraft is a complex system, whose design involves a surprisingly high number of disciplines and technologies. Breakthroughs in the rotorcraft field during recent years led to increasingly safe, maneuverable, clean, and quiet vehicles. New configurations, ranging from compound helicopters and tiltrotors to multi-copters, have been designed and are now under certification to comply with specific requests of the market. This progress has been essentially led by new technologies, theoretical advances made in understanding the phenomena governing the physics of rotorcraft, and the development of reliable and efficient computational tools that can be effectively used in their design process. However, several issues in the fields of aerodynamics, aeroservoelasticity, and aeroacoustics remain open, calling for further advances in theory and technology. This progress will be of paramount importance to design ever more efficient, green, and silent rotorcraft, and will become crucial for the development of the urban-mobility aircraft envisaged in the near future.

This Special Issue calls for high-quality papers in the fields of aerodynamics, aeroservoelasticity, and aeroacoustics of rotorcraft, and on all related technologies. We are particularly interested in receiving manuscripts from researchers of both academia and industry, dealing with recent experimental and theoretical/computational advances.

Prof. Giovanni Bernardini
Guest Editor

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