Novel Airfoils and Analysis for Emerging Aerospace Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in research activity and development in two key areas of aerospace and aircraft design; advanced air mobility (AAM) or urban air mobility (UAM) and Hypersonics. The distinct flight regimes and difference in Mach number has important implications on the design of an airfoil for a finite wing in each regime, and the flow conditions that must be considered to model and analyze the airfoil. This special issue on “Novel Airfoils and Analysis for Emerging Aerospace Vehicles” seeks unique contributions on novel airfoils or methodologies to analyze airfoil aerodynamics that in theory or practice are likely to improve the aerodynamics and flight performance of UAM ‘air taxi’ or hypersonic aircraft. We are interested in novel airfoil designs that offer some aerodynamic, aerothermal, or aeroacoustic benefit in conjunction with their integration on a finite wing; such as reduced boundary layer shock interaction, wave drag, or aerodynamic heating. For low speed UAM aircraft, we are interested in how distributed electric propulsion with open rotors or ducted fans can be leveraged to produce airfoils and wings with unique design features to improve the aerodynamic efficiency or mitigate aeroacoustic noise (e.g., related to vortex shedding), which is critical for UAV aircraft to opearate in an urban metro. Finally, we are also seeking to publish studies that use modern numerical codes to analyze airfoils for these new emerging aerospace vehicles.  

Dr. Victor Maldonado
Dr. Zhijin Wang
Guest Editors

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• aircraft design
• finite wing aerodynamics
• rotary wing aerodynamics
• aeroelasticity
• flow control