New Results in Wind Tunnel Testing
A special issue of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editor
Interests: computational and experimental aerodynamics; wind tunnel technology; flow control; flight mechanics and aircraft performance; aeroacoustics; aeroelasticity; composite materials/structures and fatigue; failure analysis; crashworthiness; fluid–structure interaction; experimental fracture mechanics; fatigue of aircraft materials and structures; bio-inspired aerodynamical and structural design; UAVs; artificial intelligence; wind energy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To successfully design the aerodynamics of new modern aircraft, it is necessary to know the accurate aerodynamic characteristics of the whole aircraft as well as of its individual constituent parts. Since there is still no completely accurate mathematical model of turbulent flows, we cannot completely solve the aerodynamic design problem by computer simulation and calculation only. We still have to solve many problems related to aerodynamic design by performing tests in wind tunnels. However, wind tunnel simulation is connected with many problems that cause distortions in the flow conditions around the tested models, which ultimately results in the inaccuracy of the measured aerodynamic values. There are many reasons for this, but it is quite understandable that even the best wind tunnels cannot provide conditions that accurately simulate flows around the model that are identical to the flows in the free air. Therefore, resolving the problem related to the definition and elimination of wind tunnel wall interference is a continuing task requiring experimental and theoretical research, either during the construction of new wind tunnels or during their use.
However, the fact is that wind tunnels are increasingly used today to calibrate CFD simulation codes and less and less to directly design new aircraft in order to reduce very expensive wind tunnel experiments. In the last three years, the role of wind tunnels in the field of aerospace has expanded even more, especially in the era of accelerated development and application of artificial intelligence and implementation of machine learning in aerodynamics and solving complex problems of aeroelasticity of sophisticated aircraft structures.
The focus of this special issue, called "New Results in Wind Tunnel Testing", will be the research and development of modern aircraft by testing in subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic wind tunnels, covering a velocity range from 0.2 to 15 Mach.
Prof. Dr. Bosko Rasuo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- subsonic/transonic/supersonic/hypersonic wind tunnel
- measurement techniques
- measurement systems
- test methodology
- innovative approaches
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