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Thermoelectrics: a review of present and potential applications

Aircraft wings are a compromise that allows the aircraft to fly at a range of flight conditions, but the performance at each condition is sub-optimal. The ability of a wing surface to change its geometry during flight has interested researchers and designers over the years as this reduces the design compromises required. Morphing is the short form for metamorphose; however, there is neither an exact definition nor an agreement between the researchers about the type or the extent of the geometrical changes necessary to qualify an aircraft for the title ‘shape morphing.’ Geometrical parameters that can be affected by morphing solutions can be categorized into: planform alteration (span, sweep, and chord), out-of-plane transformation (twist, dihedral/gull, and span-wise bending), and airfoil adjustment (camber and thickness). Changing the wing shape or geometry is not new. Historically, morphing solutions always led to penalties in terms of cost, complexity, or weight, although in certain circumstances, thes...

A Review of Morphing Aircraft

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Digital control of dynamic systems

Recent progress in flapping wing aerodynamics and aeroelasticity

Applications of the unsteady vortex-lattice method in aircraft aeroelasticity and flight dynamics

An evaluation of computational models is carried out for flight dynamics simulations on low-speed aircraft with very-flexible high-aspect ratio wings. Structural dynamic models include displacement-based, strain-based, and intrinsic (first-order) geometrically-nonlinear composite beams, while thin-strip and vortex lattice methods are considered for the unsteady aerodynamics. It is first shown that all different beam finite element models (previously derived in the literature from different assumptions) can be consistently obtained from a single set of equations. This approach has been used to expand existing strain-based models to include shear effects. Comparisons are made in terms of numerical efficiency and simplicity of integration in flexible aircraft flight dynamics studies. On the structural modeling, it was found that intrinsic solutions can be several times faster than conventional ones for aircraft-type geometries. For the aerodynamic modeling, thin-strip models based on indicial airfoil response are found to perform well in situations dominated by small amplitude dynamics around large quasi-static wing deflections, while large-amplitude wing dynamics require three-dimensional descriptions (e.g. vortex lattice).

Structural and Aerodynamic Models in Nonlinear Flight Dynamics of Very Flexible Aircraft

Safety is key to civil aviation. To further improve its already respectable safety records, the airline industry is transitioning towards a proactive approach which anticipates and mitigates risks before incidents occur. This approach requires continuous monitoring and analysis of flight operations; however, modern aircraft systems have become increasingly complex to a degree that traditional analytical methods have reached their limits – the current methods in use can only detect ‘hazardous’ behaviors on a pre-defined list; they will miss important risks that are unlisted or unknown. This paper presents a novel approach to apply data mining in flight data analysis allowing airline safety experts to identify latent risks from daily operations without specifying what to look for in advance. In this approach, we apply a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) based clustering to digital flight data in order to detect flights with unusual data patterns. These flights may indicate an increased level of risks under the assumption that normal flights share common patterns, while anomalies do not. Safety experts can then review these flights in detail to identify risks, if any. Compared with other data-driven methods to monitor flight operations, this approach, referred to as ClusterAD-DataSample, can (1) better establish the norm by automatically recognizing multiple typical patterns of flight operations, and (2) pinpoint which part of a detected flight is abnormal. Evaluation of ClusterAD-DataSample was performed on two sets of A320 flight data of real-world airline operations; results showed that ClusterAD-DataSample was able to detect abnormal flights with elevated risks, which make it a promising tool for airline operators to identify early signs of safety degradation even if the criteria are unknown a priori.

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Anomaly detection via a Gaussian Mixture Model for flight operation and safety monitoring

The airline industry is moving toward proactive risk management, which aims to identify and mitigate risks before accidents occur. However, existing methods for such efforts are limited. They rely on predefined criteria to identify risks, leaving emergent issues undetected. This paper presents a new method, cluster-based anomaly detection to detect abnormal flights, which can support domain experts in detecting anomalies and associated risks from routine airline operations. The new method, enabled by data from the flight data recorder, applies clustering techniques to detect abnormal flights of unique data patterns. Compared with existing methods, the new method no longer requires predefined criteria or domain knowledge. Tests were conducted using two sets of operational data consisting of 365 B777 flights and 25,519 A320 flights. The performance of cluster-based anomaly detection to detect abnormal flights was compared with those of multiple kernel anomaly detection, which is another data-driven anomaly ...

Analysis of flight data using clustering techniques for detecting abnormal operations

Because of their small size and flight regime, coupling of aerodynamics, structural dynamics, and flight dynamics are critical for micro aerial vehicles This paper presents a computational framework for simulating structural models of varied fidelity and a Navier-Stokes solver, aimed at simulating flapping and flexible wings The structural model uses either 1) the in-house developed UM/NLABS, which decomposes the equations of 3-D elasticity into cross-sectional and spanwise analyses for slender wings, or 2) MSCMarc, which is a commercial finite-element solver capable of modeling geometrically nonlinear structures of arbitrary geometry The flow solver employs a well-tested pressure-based algorithm implemented in STREAM A NACA0012 cross-sectional rectangular wing of aspect ratio 3, chord Reynolds number of 3 x 10 4 , and reduced frequency varying from 04 to 182, with prescribed pure plunge motion is investigated Both rigid and flexible wing results are presented, and good agreement between experiment and computation are shown regarding tip displacement and thrust coefficient Issues related to coupling strategies, fluid physics associated with rigid and flexible wings, and implications of fluid density on aerodynamic loading are also explored in this paper

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Rafael Palacios

Papers

Applications of the unsteady vortex-lattice method in aircraft aeroelasticity and flight dynamics

Structural and Aerodynamic Models in Nonlinear Flight Dynamics of Very Flexible Aircraft

Anomaly detection via a Gaussian Mixture Model for flight operation and safety monitoring

Analysis of flight data using clustering techniques for detecting abnormal operations

Computational Aeroelasticity Framework for Analyzing Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles