Parametric Approach to Assessing Performance of High-Lift Device Active Flow Control Architectures

Active Flow Control is at present an area of considerable research, with multiple potential aircraft applications. While the majority of research has focused on the performance of the actuators themselves, a system-level perspective is necessary to assess the viability of proposed solutions. This pa...

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Published in:Aerospace 2017-03, Vol.4 (1), p.6
Main Authors: Cai, Yu, Gao, Zhenyu, Chakraborty, Imon, Briceno, Simon, Mavris, Dimitri
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Active Flow Control
Actuators
Aircraft
Aircraft control
Aircraft performance
architecture assessment
Control systems
Flow control
High lift
Mass flow
mission performance analysis
Performance assessment
Redundancy
Wide-body aircraft
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Summary:Active Flow Control is at present an area of considerable research, with multiple potential aircraft applications. While the majority of research has focused on the performance of the actuators themselves, a system-level perspective is necessary to assess the viability of proposed solutions. This paper demonstrates such an approach, in which major system components are sized based on system flow and redundancy considerations, with the impacts linked directly to the mission performance of the aircraft. Considering the case of a large twin-aisle aircraft, four distinct active flow control architectures that facilitate the simplification of the high-lift mechanism are investigated using the demonstrated approach. The analysis indicates a very strong influence of system total mass flow requirement on architecture performance, both for a typical mission and also over the entire payload-range envelope of the aircraft.
ISSN:2226-4310
2226-4310
DOI:10.3390/aerospace4010006