The flying-wing aircraft has excellent aerodynamic efficiency and stealth performance.However,due to the lack of tails,the flying-wing aircraft has a serious attitude control problem.In this paper,the effective flow c...The flying-wing aircraft has excellent aerodynamic efficiency and stealth performance.However,due to the lack of tails,the flying-wing aircraft has a serious attitude control problem.In this paper,the effective flow control strategy of three-axis control is proposed by using continuous jets for a flapless flying-wing aircraft.The wind tunnel test of two kinds of flying-wing models,namely one flow control model and one mechanical control model,is conducted,and the control effect is analyzed and compared.By simultaneous blowing of the circulation control actuators inboard and differential blowing of the circulation control actuators outboard,the pitch and roll controls are achieved,respectively.It also has an effective control effect at very large angles of attack where the conventional control surface fails.A linear relationship is found between the increment of the controlled aerodynamic force/moment coefficient and the momentum coefficient for circulation control actuators.Moreover,to resolve the difficulty in yaw control,a novel wingtip jet is proposed based on the concept of the all-moving tip and compared with apex jet and circulation control jet.It is found that the wingtip jet is the most efficient actuator,followed by the simultaneous-blowing circulation control jet.Therefore,based on the research above,two optimized fluidic control configurations are proposed.One employs circulation control jet and wingtip jet,and the other is completely dependent on circulation control jet.Finally,the flow control mechanism of circulation control is discussed.Circulation control significantly accelerates the flow on the upper surface of the airfoil in attached flow and reduces the flow separation region in separated flow,leading to aerodynamic performance improvement.These results provide an important theoretic basis for the flapless flight control of flying-wing aircraft.展开更多
Experimental investigation of aerodynamic control on a 35° swept flying wing by means of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma was carried out at subsonic flow speed of 20-40 m/s, correspondin...Experimental investigation of aerodynamic control on a 35° swept flying wing by means of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma was carried out at subsonic flow speed of 20-40 m/s, corresponding to Reynolds number of 3.1 × 10^5-6.2× 10^5. In control condition, the plasma actuator was installed symmetrically on the leading edge of the wing. Lift coefficient, drag coefficient, lift-to-drag ratio and pitching moment coefficient were tested with and without control for a range of angles of attack. The tested results indicate that an increase of 14.5% in maximum lift coefficient, a decrease of 34.2% in drag coefficient, an increase of 22.4% in maximum lift-to-drag ratio and an increase of 2° at stall angle of attack could be achieved compared with the baseline case. The effects of pulsed frequency, amplitude and chord Reynolds number were also investigated. And the results revealed that control efficiency demonstrated strong dependence on pulsed fre- quency. Moreover, the results of pitching moment coefficient indicated that the breakdown of lead- ing edge vortices could be delayed by plasma actuator at low pulsed frequencies.展开更多
To achieve the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a longitudinal aerodynamic control technology based on circulation control using trailing-edge synthetic jet actua...To achieve the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a longitudinal aerodynamic control technology based on circulation control using trailing-edge synthetic jet actuators was proposed without the movement of rudders.Effects on the longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a small-sweep FWA were investigated.Then,flight tests were carried out to verify the control abilities,providing a novel technology for the design of a future rudderless FWA.Results show that synthetic jets could narrow the dead zone area,improve the flow velocity near the trailing edge,and then move the trailing-edge separation point and the leading-edge stagnation point downwards,which make the effective Attack of Angle(AOA)increase,thereby enhancing the pressure envelope area.Circulation control based on synthetic jets could improve the lift,drag and nose-down moment.The variations of lift and nosedown moment decrease with the growth of AOA caused by the improved reverse pressure gradient and the weakened circulation control efficiency.Finally,synthetic jet actuators were integrated into the trailing edge of a small-sweep FWA,which could realize the roll and pitch control without deflections of rudders during the cruise stage,and the maximum roll and pitch angular velocity are 12.64(°)/s and 8.51(°)/s,respectively.展开更多
Numerical simulation of wing stall of a blended flying wing configuration at transonic speed was conducted using both delayed detached eddy simulation（DDES） and unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes（URANS） equa...Numerical simulation of wing stall of a blended flying wing configuration at transonic speed was conducted using both delayed detached eddy simulation（DDES） and unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes（URANS） equations methods based on the shear stress transport（SST） turbulence model for a free-stream Mach number 0.9 and a Reynolds number 9.6 × 10. A joint time step/grid density study is performed based on power spectrum density（PSD） analysis of the frequency content of forces or moments, and medium mesh and the normalized time scale0.010 were suggested for this simulation. The simulation results show that the DDES methods perform more precisely than the URANS method and the aerodynamic coefficient results from DDES method compare very well with the experiment data. The angle of attack of nonlinear vortex lift and abrupt wing stall of DDES results compare well with the experimental data. The flow structure of the DDES computation shows that the wing stall is caused mainly by the leeward vortex breakdown which occurred at x/x= 0.6 at angle of attack of 14°. The DDES methods show advantage in the simulation problem with separation flow. The computed result shows that a shock/vortex interaction is responsible for the wing stall caused by the vortex breakdown. The balance of the vortex strength and axial flow, and the shock strength, is examined to provide an explanation of the sensitivity of the breakdown location. Wing body thickness has a great influence on shock and shock/vortex interactions, which can make a significant difference to the vortex breakdown behavior and stall characteristic of the blended flying wing configuration.展开更多
Circulation Control(CC) realizes rudderless flight control by driving compressed air jet to generate a virtual rudder surface, which significantly improves low detectability. The layout plan of combined control rudder...Circulation Control(CC) realizes rudderless flight control by driving compressed air jet to generate a virtual rudder surface, which significantly improves low detectability. The layout plan of combined control rudder surface is proposed based on the tailless flying wing aircraft. The closed-loop jet actuator system and stepless rudder surface switching control strategy are used to quantitatively study the control characteristics of circulation actuator for pitch and roll attitude through 3-DOF virtual flight test in a wind tunnel with a powered model at wind speed of 40 m/s. The results show that the combined use of circulation actuators can achieve bidirectional continuous and stable control of the aircraft’s pitch and roll attitude, with the maximum pitch rate of 12.3(°)/s and the maximum roll rate of 21.5(°)/s;the response time of attitude angular rate varying with the jet pressure ratio is less than 0.02 s, which can satisfy the control response requirements of aircraft motion stability for the control system;the jet rudder surface has a strong moment control ability, and the pitch moment of the jet elevator with a pressure ratio of 1.28 is the same as that of the mechanical elevator with 28° rudder deflection, which can expand the flight control boundary.展开更多
Dielectric barrier discharge （DBD） plasma is one of most promising flow control method for its several advantages. The present work investigates the control authority of nanosecond pulse DBD plasma actuators on a fl...Dielectric barrier discharge （DBD） plasma is one of most promising flow control method for its several advantages. The present work investigates the control authority of nanosecond pulse DBD plasma actuators on a flying wing model＇s aerodynamic characteristics. The aerodynamic forces and moments are studied by means of experiment and numerical simulation. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with experiment results. Both results indicate that the NS-DBD plasma actuators have negligible effect on aerodynamic forces and moment at the angles of attack smaller than 16-. However, significant changes can be achieved with actuation when the model＇s angle of attack is larger than 16° where the flow separation occurs. The spatial flow field structure results from numerical simulation suggest that the volumetric heat produced by NS-DBD plasma actuator changes the local temperature and density and induces several vortex structures, which strengthen the mixing of the shear layer with the main flow and delay separation or even reattach the separated flow.展开更多
Transonic rudder buzz responses based on the computational fluid dynamics or computational structural dynamics(CFD/CSD)loosely method are analyzed for a tailless flying wing unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV).The Reynolds-a...Transonic rudder buzz responses based on the computational fluid dynamics or computational structural dynamics(CFD/CSD)loosely method are analyzed for a tailless flying wing unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV).The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS)equations and finite element methods based on the detailed aerodynamic and structural model are established,in which the aerodynamic dynamic meshes adopt the unstructured dynamic meshes based on the combination of spring-based smoothing and local remeshing methods,and the lower-upper symmetric-Gauss-Seidel(LU-SGS)iteration and Harten-Lax-van Leer-Einfeldt-Wada(HLLEW)space discrete methods based on the shear stress transport(SST)turbulence model are used to calculate the aerodynamic force.The constraints of the rudder motions are fixed at the end of structural model of the flying wing UAV,and the structural geometric nonlinearities are also considered in the flying wing UAV with a high aspect ratio.The interfaces between structural and aerodynamic models are built with an exact match surface where load transferring is performed based on 3Dinterpolation.The flying wing UAV transonic buzz responses based on the aerodynamic structural coupling method are studied,and the rudder buzz responses and aileron,elevator and flap vibration responses caused by rudder motion are also investigated.The effects of attack,height,rotating angular frequency and Mach number under transonic conditions on the flying wing UAV rudder buzz responses are discussed.The results can be regarded as a reference for the flying wing UAV engineering vibration analysis.展开更多
he effects of the arrangement position and control parameters of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma actuators on lift enhancement for flying wing aircraft were investigated through wind tunnel e...he effects of the arrangement position and control parameters of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma actuators on lift enhancement for flying wing aircraft were investigated through wind tunnel experiments at a flow speed of 25 m s-1.The aerodynamic forces and moments were obtained by a six-component balance at angles of attack ranging from -4° to 28°.The lift,drag and pitching moment coefficients were compared for the cases with and without plasma control.The results revealed that the maximum control effect was achieved by placing the actuator at the leading edge of the inner and middle wing,for which the maximum lift coefficient increased by 37.8% and the stall angle of attack was postponed by 8° compared with the plasma-off case.The effects of modulation frequency and discharge voltage were also investigated.The results revealed that the lift enhancement effect of the NS-DBD plasma actuators was strongly influenced by the modulation frequency.Significant control effects were obtained atf =70 Hz,corresponding to F＋ ≈ 1.The result for the pitching moment coefficient demonstrated that the plasma actuator can induce the reattachment of the separation flows when it is actuated.However,the results indicated that the discharge voltage had a negligible influence on the lift enhancement effect.展开更多
Due to elimination of horizontal and vertical tails,flying wing aircraft has poor longitudinal and directional dynamic characteristics.In addition,flying wing aircraft uses drag rudders for yaw control,which tends to ...Due to elimination of horizontal and vertical tails,flying wing aircraft has poor longitudinal and directional dynamic characteristics.In addition,flying wing aircraft uses drag rudders for yaw control,which tends to generate strong three-axis control coupling.To overcome these problems,a flight control law design method that couples the longitudinal axis with the lateraldirectional axes is proposed.First,the three-axis coupled control augmentation structure is specified.In the structure,a‘‘soft/hard"cross-connection method is developed for three-axis dynamic decoupling and longitudinal control response decoupling from the drag rudders;maneuvering turn angular rate estimation and subtraction are used in the yaw axis to improve the directional damping.Besides,feedforward control is adopted to improve the maneuverability and control decoupling performance.Then,detailed design methods for feedback and feedforward control parameters are established using eigenstructure assignment and model following technique.Finally,the proposed design method is evaluated and compared with conventional method by numeric simulations.The influences of control derivatives variation of drag rudders on the method are also analyzed.It is demonstrated that the method can effectively improve the dynamic characteristics of flying wing aircraft,especially the directional damping characteristics,and decouple the longitudinal responses from the drag rudders.展开更多
In this paper, the effects of twist angle variation on aerodynamic coefficients and flow field on the wing with wing smarting approach are studied using numerical simulation. The simulation was performed using incompr...In this paper, the effects of twist angle variation on aerodynamic coefficients and flow field on the wing with wing smarting approach are studied using numerical simulation. The simulation was performed using incompressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) equations based on the two-equation k-x Shear Stress Transport(SST) turbulent model for flow speed30 m/s and a Reynolds number of 69000. Investigations have been carried out for several twist angles and at a specific range of angles of attack. The twist applied is the type of geometric twist(wash-out), which is linearly distributed along the span. The test case is a lambda-shaped tailless aircraft with a wing fracture on the trailing edge, and a sweep angle 56°. The results show that with increasing twist angle, the aerodynamic efficiency improves over a wide range of angles of attack,but at 0° angle of attack it will decrease significantly. By increasing the angle of attack, the effect of twist on the flow field and aerodynamic coefficients will gradually decrease;hence, at a certain amount of angle of attack, the effect of twist will stop, that angle is called the neutral brink angle.Longitudinal stability analysis shows that by growing the twist angle, the conditions required for longitudinal stability are satisfied, and the pitch-up phenomenon will be delayed.展开更多
For achieving the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a novel yaw effector based on Reverse Dual Synthetic Jets(RDSJ)was proposed without the movement of rudders.Eff...For achieving the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a novel yaw effector based on Reverse Dual Synthetic Jets(RDSJ)was proposed without the movement of rudders.Effects on aerodynamic characteristics of a small-sweep FWA and control mechanism were investigated by numerical simulations.Finally,reverse dual synthetic jet actuators were integrated into a real FWA and flight tests were firstly carried out.Numerical results show that RDSJ could make drag coefficient increase and weaken lift coefficient,which generate a yawing moment and a rolling moment in the same direction,realizing control of heading attitudes,but strong coupling with the pitching moment occurs at large angles of attack.For control mechanism,RDSJ could produce two reverse synthetic jets out of phases,improve the reverse pressure gradient and hence form alternate recirculation zones or even early large-area separation,which cause the rise of pressures before exits and the dip of pressures behind exits,achieving improvement of drag and the yawing moment.The results of flight tests support that RDSJ could realize control of heading attitudes without deflections of rudders during the cruise stage and achieve the maximal yaw angular velocity of 10.12(°)/s,verifying the feasibility of this novel yaw effector.展开更多
The flying-wing underwater glider (UG), shaped as a blended wing body, is a new type of underwater vehicle and still requires further research. The shape layout and the configuration of the internal actuators of the f...The flying-wing underwater glider (UG), shaped as a blended wing body, is a new type of underwater vehicle and still requires further research. The shape layout and the configuration of the internal actuators of the flying-wing UG are different from those of "legacy gliders" which have revolving bodies, and these two factors strongly affect the dynamic performance of the vehicle. Considering these differences, we propose a new configuration of the internal actuators for the flying-wing UG and treat the flying-wing UG as a multi-body system when establishing its dynamic model. In this paper, a detailed dynamic model is presented using the Newton-Euler method for the flying-wing UG. Based on the full dynamic model, the effect of the internal actuators on the steady gliding motion of vehicle is studied theoretically, and the relationship between the state parameters of the steady gliding motion and the controlled variables is obtained by solving a set of equilibrium equations. Finally, the behaviors of two classical motion modes of the glider are analyzed based on the simulation. The simulation results demonstrate that the motion performance of the proposed flying-wing UG is satisfactory.展开更多
The influence of dihedral layout on lateral–directional dynamic stability of the tailless flying wing aircraft is discussed in this paper. A tailless flying wing aircraft with a large aspect ratio is selected as the ...The influence of dihedral layout on lateral–directional dynamic stability of the tailless flying wing aircraft is discussed in this paper. A tailless flying wing aircraft with a large aspect ratio is selected as the object of study, and the dihedral angle along the spanwise sections is divided into three segments. The influence of dihedral layouts is studied. Based on the stability derivatives calculated by the vortex lattice method code, the linearized small-disturbance equations of the lateral modes are used to determine the mode dynamic characteristics. By comparing 7056 configurations with different dihedral angle layouts, two groups of stability optimized dihedral layout concepts are created. Flight quality close to Level 2 requirements is achieved in these optimized concepts without any electric stability augmentation system.展开更多
With control using redundant multiple control surface arrangement and large-deflection drag rudders,a combat flying wing has a higher probability for control surface failures.Therefore,its flight control system must b...With control using redundant multiple control surface arrangement and large-deflection drag rudders,a combat flying wing has a higher probability for control surface failures.Therefore,its flight control system must be able to reconfigure after such failures.Considering three types of typical control surface failures（lock-in-place（LIP）,loss-of-effectiveness（LOE） and float）,flight control reconfiguration characteristic and capability of such aircraft types are analyzed.Because of the control surface redundancy,the aircraft using the dynamic inversion flight control law already has a control allocation block.In this paper,its flight control configuration during the above failures is achieved by modifying this block.It is shown that such a reconfigurable flight control design is valid,through numerical simulations of flight attitude control task.Results indicate that,in the circumstances of control surface failures with limited degree and the degradation of the flying quality level,a combat flying wing adopting this flight control reconfiguration approach based on control allocation could guarantee its flight safety and perform some flight combat missions.展开更多
文摘The flying-wing aircraft has excellent aerodynamic efficiency and stealth performance.However,due to the lack of tails,the flying-wing aircraft has a serious attitude control problem.In this paper,the effective flow control strategy of three-axis control is proposed by using continuous jets for a flapless flying-wing aircraft.The wind tunnel test of two kinds of flying-wing models,namely one flow control model and one mechanical control model,is conducted,and the control effect is analyzed and compared.By simultaneous blowing of the circulation control actuators inboard and differential blowing of the circulation control actuators outboard,the pitch and roll controls are achieved,respectively.It also has an effective control effect at very large angles of attack where the conventional control surface fails.A linear relationship is found between the increment of the controlled aerodynamic force/moment coefficient and the momentum coefficient for circulation control actuators.Moreover,to resolve the difficulty in yaw control,a novel wingtip jet is proposed based on the concept of the all-moving tip and compared with apex jet and circulation control jet.It is found that the wingtip jet is the most efficient actuator,followed by the simultaneous-blowing circulation control jet.Therefore,based on the research above,two optimized fluidic control configurations are proposed.One employs circulation control jet and wingtip jet,and the other is completely dependent on circulation control jet.Finally,the flow control mechanism of circulation control is discussed.Circulation control significantly accelerates the flow on the upper surface of the airfoil in attached flow and reduces the flow separation region in separated flow,leading to aerodynamic performance improvement.These results provide an important theoretic basis for the flapless flight control of flying-wing aircraft.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China – China (Nos. 51276197, 51207169 and 51336011)
文摘Experimental investigation of aerodynamic control on a 35° swept flying wing by means of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma was carried out at subsonic flow speed of 20-40 m/s, corresponding to Reynolds number of 3.1 × 10^5-6.2× 10^5. In control condition, the plasma actuator was installed symmetrically on the leading edge of the wing. Lift coefficient, drag coefficient, lift-to-drag ratio and pitching moment coefficient were tested with and without control for a range of angles of attack. The tested results indicate that an increase of 14.5% in maximum lift coefficient, a decrease of 34.2% in drag coefficient, an increase of 22.4% in maximum lift-to-drag ratio and an increase of 2° at stall angle of attack could be achieved compared with the baseline case. The effects of pulsed frequency, amplitude and chord Reynolds number were also investigated. And the results revealed that control efficiency demonstrated strong dependence on pulsed fre- quency. Moreover, the results of pitching moment coefficient indicated that the breakdown of lead- ing edge vortices could be delayed by plasma actuator at low pulsed frequencies.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U2141252,11972369,52075538).
文摘To achieve the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a longitudinal aerodynamic control technology based on circulation control using trailing-edge synthetic jet actuators was proposed without the movement of rudders.Effects on the longitudinal aerodynamic characteristics of a small-sweep FWA were investigated.Then,flight tests were carried out to verify the control abilities,providing a novel technology for the design of a future rudderless FWA.Results show that synthetic jets could narrow the dead zone area,improve the flow velocity near the trailing edge,and then move the trailing-edge separation point and the leading-edge stagnation point downwards,which make the effective Attack of Angle(AOA)increase,thereby enhancing the pressure envelope area.Circulation control based on synthetic jets could improve the lift,drag and nose-down moment.The variations of lift and nosedown moment decrease with the growth of AOA caused by the improved reverse pressure gradient and the weakened circulation control efficiency.Finally,synthetic jet actuators were integrated into the trailing edge of a small-sweep FWA,which could realize the roll and pitch control without deflections of rudders during the cruise stage,and the maximum roll and pitch angular velocity are 12.64(°)/s and 8.51(°)/s,respectively.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11372337)
文摘Numerical simulation of wing stall of a blended flying wing configuration at transonic speed was conducted using both delayed detached eddy simulation（DDES） and unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes（URANS） equations methods based on the shear stress transport（SST） turbulence model for a free-stream Mach number 0.9 and a Reynolds number 9.6 × 10. A joint time step/grid density study is performed based on power spectrum density（PSD） analysis of the frequency content of forces or moments, and medium mesh and the normalized time scale0.010 were suggested for this simulation. The simulation results show that the DDES methods perform more precisely than the URANS method and the aerodynamic coefficient results from DDES method compare very well with the experiment data. The angle of attack of nonlinear vortex lift and abrupt wing stall of DDES results compare well with the experimental data. The flow structure of the DDES computation shows that the wing stall is caused mainly by the leeward vortex breakdown which occurred at x/x= 0.6 at angle of attack of 14°. The DDES methods show advantage in the simulation problem with separation flow. The computed result shows that a shock/vortex interaction is responsible for the wing stall caused by the vortex breakdown. The balance of the vortex strength and axial flow, and the shock strength, is examined to provide an explanation of the sensitivity of the breakdown location. Wing body thickness has a great influence on shock and shock/vortex interactions, which can make a significant difference to the vortex breakdown behavior and stall characteristic of the blended flying wing configuration.
基金supported by the Equipment Pre-research Common Technology Project,China(No.41406010101).
文摘Circulation Control(CC) realizes rudderless flight control by driving compressed air jet to generate a virtual rudder surface, which significantly improves low detectability. The layout plan of combined control rudder surface is proposed based on the tailless flying wing aircraft. The closed-loop jet actuator system and stepless rudder surface switching control strategy are used to quantitatively study the control characteristics of circulation actuator for pitch and roll attitude through 3-DOF virtual flight test in a wind tunnel with a powered model at wind speed of 40 m/s. The results show that the combined use of circulation actuators can achieve bidirectional continuous and stable control of the aircraft’s pitch and roll attitude, with the maximum pitch rate of 12.3(°)/s and the maximum roll rate of 21.5(°)/s;the response time of attitude angular rate varying with the jet pressure ratio is less than 0.02 s, which can satisfy the control response requirements of aircraft motion stability for the control system;the jet rudder surface has a strong moment control ability, and the pitch moment of the jet elevator with a pressure ratio of 1.28 is the same as that of the mechanical elevator with 28° rudder deflection, which can expand the flight control boundary.
基金supported by Funding of Jiangsu Innovation Program for Graduate Education(No. KYLX16_0310)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. NP2016406)+1 种基金supported by Graduate Innovation Center in NUAA (No. kfjj20170117)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2017M610325)
文摘Dielectric barrier discharge （DBD） plasma is one of most promising flow control method for its several advantages. The present work investigates the control authority of nanosecond pulse DBD plasma actuators on a flying wing model＇s aerodynamic characteristics. The aerodynamic forces and moments are studied by means of experiment and numerical simulation. The numerical simulation results are in good agreement with experiment results. Both results indicate that the NS-DBD plasma actuators have negligible effect on aerodynamic forces and moment at the angles of attack smaller than 16-. However, significant changes can be achieved with actuation when the model＇s angle of attack is larger than 16° where the flow separation occurs. The spatial flow field structure results from numerical simulation suggest that the volumetric heat produced by NS-DBD plasma actuator changes the local temperature and density and induces several vortex structures, which strengthen the mixing of the shear layer with the main flow and delay separation or even reattach the separated flow.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61074155)the Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2013JM015)
文摘Transonic rudder buzz responses based on the computational fluid dynamics or computational structural dynamics(CFD/CSD)loosely method are analyzed for a tailless flying wing unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV).The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS)equations and finite element methods based on the detailed aerodynamic and structural model are established,in which the aerodynamic dynamic meshes adopt the unstructured dynamic meshes based on the combination of spring-based smoothing and local remeshing methods,and the lower-upper symmetric-Gauss-Seidel(LU-SGS)iteration and Harten-Lax-van Leer-Einfeldt-Wada(HLLEW)space discrete methods based on the shear stress transport(SST)turbulence model are used to calculate the aerodynamic force.The constraints of the rudder motions are fixed at the end of structural model of the flying wing UAV,and the structural geometric nonlinearities are also considered in the flying wing UAV with a high aspect ratio.The interfaces between structural and aerodynamic models are built with an exact match surface where load transferring is performed based on 3Dinterpolation.The flying wing UAV transonic buzz responses based on the aerodynamic structural coupling method are studied,and the rudder buzz responses and aileron,elevator and flap vibration responses caused by rudder motion are also investigated.The effects of attack,height,rotating angular frequency and Mach number under transonic conditions on the flying wing UAV rudder buzz responses are discussed.The results can be regarded as a reference for the flying wing UAV engineering vibration analysis.
文摘he effects of the arrangement position and control parameters of nanosecond dielectric barrier discharge （NS-DBD） plasma actuators on lift enhancement for flying wing aircraft were investigated through wind tunnel experiments at a flow speed of 25 m s-1.The aerodynamic forces and moments were obtained by a six-component balance at angles of attack ranging from -4° to 28°.The lift,drag and pitching moment coefficients were compared for the cases with and without plasma control.The results revealed that the maximum control effect was achieved by placing the actuator at the leading edge of the inner and middle wing,for which the maximum lift coefficient increased by 37.8% and the stall angle of attack was postponed by 8° compared with the plasma-off case.The effects of modulation frequency and discharge voltage were also investigated.The results revealed that the lift enhancement effect of the NS-DBD plasma actuators was strongly influenced by the modulation frequency.Significant control effects were obtained atf =70 Hz,corresponding to F＋ ≈ 1.The result for the pitching moment coefficient demonstrated that the plasma actuator can induce the reattachment of the separation flows when it is actuated.However,the results indicated that the discharge voltage had a negligible influence on the lift enhancement effect.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No.:YWF-19-BJ-J-322)。
文摘Due to elimination of horizontal and vertical tails,flying wing aircraft has poor longitudinal and directional dynamic characteristics.In addition,flying wing aircraft uses drag rudders for yaw control,which tends to generate strong three-axis control coupling.To overcome these problems,a flight control law design method that couples the longitudinal axis with the lateraldirectional axes is proposed.First,the three-axis coupled control augmentation structure is specified.In the structure,a‘‘soft/hard"cross-connection method is developed for three-axis dynamic decoupling and longitudinal control response decoupling from the drag rudders;maneuvering turn angular rate estimation and subtraction are used in the yaw axis to improve the directional damping.Besides,feedforward control is adopted to improve the maneuverability and control decoupling performance.Then,detailed design methods for feedback and feedforward control parameters are established using eigenstructure assignment and model following technique.Finally,the proposed design method is evaluated and compared with conventional method by numeric simulations.The influences of control derivatives variation of drag rudders on the method are also analyzed.It is demonstrated that the method can effectively improve the dynamic characteristics of flying wing aircraft,especially the directional damping characteristics,and decouple the longitudinal responses from the drag rudders.
文摘In this paper, the effects of twist angle variation on aerodynamic coefficients and flow field on the wing with wing smarting approach are studied using numerical simulation. The simulation was performed using incompressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) equations based on the two-equation k-x Shear Stress Transport(SST) turbulent model for flow speed30 m/s and a Reynolds number of 69000. Investigations have been carried out for several twist angles and at a specific range of angles of attack. The twist applied is the type of geometric twist(wash-out), which is linearly distributed along the span. The test case is a lambda-shaped tailless aircraft with a wing fracture on the trailing edge, and a sweep angle 56°. The results show that with increasing twist angle, the aerodynamic efficiency improves over a wide range of angles of attack,but at 0° angle of attack it will decrease significantly. By increasing the angle of attack, the effect of twist on the flow field and aerodynamic coefficients will gradually decrease;hence, at a certain amount of angle of attack, the effect of twist will stop, that angle is called the neutral brink angle.Longitudinal stability analysis shows that by growing the twist angle, the conditions required for longitudinal stability are satisfied, and the pitch-up phenomenon will be delayed.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.U2141252,11972369 and 52075538)。
文摘For achieving the nice stealth performance and aerodynamic maneuverability of a Flying Wing Aircraft(FWA),a novel yaw effector based on Reverse Dual Synthetic Jets(RDSJ)was proposed without the movement of rudders.Effects on aerodynamic characteristics of a small-sweep FWA and control mechanism were investigated by numerical simulations.Finally,reverse dual synthetic jet actuators were integrated into a real FWA and flight tests were firstly carried out.Numerical results show that RDSJ could make drag coefficient increase and weaken lift coefficient,which generate a yawing moment and a rolling moment in the same direction,realizing control of heading attitudes,but strong coupling with the pitching moment occurs at large angles of attack.For control mechanism,RDSJ could produce two reverse synthetic jets out of phases,improve the reverse pressure gradient and hence form alternate recirculation zones or even early large-area separation,which cause the rise of pressures before exits and the dip of pressures behind exits,achieving improvement of drag and the yawing moment.The results of flight tests support that RDSJ could realize control of heading attitudes without deflections of rudders during the cruise stage and achieve the maximal yaw angular velocity of 10.12(°)/s,verifying the feasibility of this novel yaw effector.
文摘The flying-wing underwater glider (UG), shaped as a blended wing body, is a new type of underwater vehicle and still requires further research. The shape layout and the configuration of the internal actuators of the flying-wing UG are different from those of "legacy gliders" which have revolving bodies, and these two factors strongly affect the dynamic performance of the vehicle. Considering these differences, we propose a new configuration of the internal actuators for the flying-wing UG and treat the flying-wing UG as a multi-body system when establishing its dynamic model. In this paper, a detailed dynamic model is presented using the Newton-Euler method for the flying-wing UG. Based on the full dynamic model, the effect of the internal actuators on the steady gliding motion of vehicle is studied theoretically, and the relationship between the state parameters of the steady gliding motion and the controlled variables is obtained by solving a set of equilibrium equations. Finally, the behaviors of two classical motion modes of the glider are analyzed based on the simulation. The simulation results demonstrate that the motion performance of the proposed flying-wing UG is satisfactory.
文摘The influence of dihedral layout on lateral–directional dynamic stability of the tailless flying wing aircraft is discussed in this paper. A tailless flying wing aircraft with a large aspect ratio is selected as the object of study, and the dihedral angle along the spanwise sections is divided into three segments. The influence of dihedral layouts is studied. Based on the stability derivatives calculated by the vortex lattice method code, the linearized small-disturbance equations of the lateral modes are used to determine the mode dynamic characteristics. By comparing 7056 configurations with different dihedral angle layouts, two groups of stability optimized dihedral layout concepts are created. Flight quality close to Level 2 requirements is achieved in these optimized concepts without any electric stability augmentation system.
文摘With control using redundant multiple control surface arrangement and large-deflection drag rudders,a combat flying wing has a higher probability for control surface failures.Therefore,its flight control system must be able to reconfigure after such failures.Considering three types of typical control surface failures（lock-in-place（LIP）,loss-of-effectiveness（LOE） and float）,flight control reconfiguration characteristic and capability of such aircraft types are analyzed.Because of the control surface redundancy,the aircraft using the dynamic inversion flight control law already has a control allocation block.In this paper,its flight control configuration during the above failures is achieved by modifying this block.It is shown that such a reconfigurable flight control design is valid,through numerical simulations of flight attitude control task.Results indicate that,in the circumstances of control surface failures with limited degree and the degradation of the flying quality level,a combat flying wing adopting this flight control reconfiguration approach based on control allocation could guarantee its flight safety and perform some flight combat missions.
