Aerodynamics of Aircraft Propellers: Theoretical, Numerical, and Experimental Methods

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the ever more urgent need to reduce fuel consumption and the emissions of greenhouse gases, the development of more and more efficient propellers for aircraft propulsive systems is still at the top of technological research. The three-dimensional and unsteady flow induced by a propeller is very complex, and many fluid dynamic phenomena simultaneously occur, e.g., compressibility effects, tip and hub vortex generation, stall, as well as rotor–wing and rotor–fuselage interactions. Then, to develop more robust and accurate analysis and design tools, it is of paramount importance to further improve the physical understanding of this kind of flow.

This Special Issue is devoted to collecting both original and review papers dealing with the aerodynamics of aircraft propellers, and a broad range of topics are accepted, including but not limited to the ones outlined in the keywords.

Dr. Rodolfo Bontempo
Guest Editor

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• aerodynamic theory of open rotors
• engineering methods for design and performance analysis
• numerical and experimental techniques for propellers
• design and optimization
• aeroacoustics
• aeroelasticity
• contra-rotating open rotors
• propeller wake development
• ducted propellers