Aerodynamic Design Improvements: High-Lift and Cruise
Instructor(s)
Description
Covers recent advances in high-lift systems and aerodynamics as well as cruise drag prediction and reduction. Includes discussion of numerical methods and experimental techniques for performance analysis of wings and bodies and boundary-layer transition prediction/detection.
Target Audience
Designed for engineers and managers involved in the aerodynamic design and analysis of airplanes, rotorcraft and other vehicles.
Fee Includes
Includes instruction, course notebook, refreshments and five lunches. The course notes are for participants only and not for sale.
Fees: See fee information for individual classes in the registration column on the right side of this page.
Class Time
35 hours • 3.5 CEUs
Course Outline
Day One
- Aircraft design and the importance of drag on fuel efficiency, operational cost, and the environmental impact
- Empirical drag prediction including scale effects on aircraft drag and examples of drag estimates for several aircraft
- History of laminar flow for drag reduction
- Natural laminar flow design, application, certification, and viability
- Laminar flow control and hybrid laminar flow control design and application considerations including suction system considerations
- CFD-based drag prediction and decomposition
Day Two
- Critical factors in CFD-based prediction
- Boundary-layer transition prediction and analysis ranging from empirical to Parabolic Stability Equation (PSE) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) techniques
- Supersonic laminar flow including boundary-layer instability, transition mechanisms and control methods at supersonic speeds
- Wave drag reduction at transonic and supersonic conditions
- Passive and active methods for turbulent drag reduction
Day Three
- Induced-drag reduction ranging from classic linear theory to active reduction concepts including wingtip turbines and tip blowing
- Experimental techniques for laminar and turbulent flows
- Impact of high-lift on performance and economics of general aviation and subsonic transport aircraft
- Physics of single-element airfoils at high-lift including types of stall characteristics, Reynolds and Mach number effects
Day Four
- High-lift physics of swept and unswept single-element wings
- Physics of three-dimensional high-lift systems including features of 3D high-lift flows and lessons from high Reynolds number tests
- Importance of boundary-layer transition, relaminarization and roughness (icing, rain) effects on high-lift aerodynamics
- Overview and survey of high-lift systems; types of high-lift systems including support and actuation systems
- High-lift computational aerodynamics methods
Day Five
- Passive and active flow separation control
- Conceptual studies of high-lift systems including multi-disciplinary approaches
- High-lift characteristics of unconventional systems and configurations including canard and tandem-wing configurations, Upper Surface Blowing (USB), Externally Blown Flaps (EBF), and Circulation Control Wings (CCW)
- High-lift flight experiments involving general aviation and transport type airplanes
- Final observations
Comments from Past Participants
"The instructors were very knowledgeable on a wide range of topics. I enjoyed the course immensely and would recommend it to others." — Shelly Brimmeier, Gulfstream Aerospace
"An excellent overview of current technology regarding high-lift and performance." — Tom Bailey, Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies
"A highly-recommended course. The instructors gave an excellent overview of the fundamentals of high-lift designs and performance, also outlining the recent research activities in these disciplines which will serve as a good source for aircraft designs." — Fiona Chan, Airbus UK
How You May Benefit
- Become familiar with the state of the art in high-lift systems and aerodynamics
- Learn about the pros and cons of a wide range of drag reduction techniques and ways to accurately predict and measure drag
- Find out which boundary-layer transition prediction and detection techniques are currently used and the critical effects of transition on lift and drag
- Find out which computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are available to design and analyze airfoils, wings, etc.
Dates and Locations
For Course Information
Contact Kim Hunsinger
at 785-864-4758
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Registration Information
Mail
Aerospace Short Courses
The University of Kansas
Continuing Education
Registrations
1515 St. Andrews Drive
Lawrence, KS 66047-1619
Phone
Toll-free 877-404-5823
or 785-864-5823
Fax
785-864-4871
TDD
800-766-3777
E-mail
kuce@ku.edu
