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Aerodynamic Shape Design and Validation of an Advanced High-Lift Device for a Regional Aircraft with Morphing Droop Nose Alessandro De Gaspari, Frédéric Moens Aerodynamic Shape Design and Validation of an Advanced High-Lift Device for a Regional Aircraft with Morphing Droop Nose Alessandro de Gaspari, Frédéric Moens To cite this version: Alessandro de Gaspari, Frédéric Moens. Aerodynamic Shape Design and Validation of an Ad- vanced High-Lift Device for a Regional Aircraft with Morphing Droop Nose. International Jour- nal of Aerospace Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2019, 2019 (7982168), pp.1-21. 10.1155/2019/7982168. hal-02100139 HAL Id: hal-02100139 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02100139 Submitted on 15 Apr 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Hindawi International Journal of Aerospace Engineering Volume 2019, Article ID 7982168, 21 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/7982168 Research Article Aerodynamic Shape Design and Validation of an Advanced High-Lift Device for a Regional Aircraft with Morphing Droop Nose Alessandro De Gaspari 1 and Frédéric Moens 2 1Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano, 20156 Milano, Italy 2Aerodynamics Aeroelasticity and Acoustics Department, ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab, 92190 Meudon, France Correspondence should be addressed to Alessandro De Gaspari; [email protected] Received 15 April 2018; Accepted 4 December 2018; Published 27 March 2019 Academic Editor: Mauro Pontani Copyright © 2019 Alessandro De Gaspari and Frédéric Moens. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the present work, the aerodynamic shape design of an advanced high-lift system for a natural laminar flow (NLF) wing, based on the combination of a morphing droop nose and a single slot trailing edge flap, is presented. The paper presents both the aerodynamic design and optimization of the NLF wing and the high-lift configuration considering the mutual effects of both flap devices. Concerning the morphing droop nose (DN), after defining the parameterization techniques adopted to describe the geometry in terms of morphing shape and flap settings, the external configuration is obtained by an aerodynamic shape optimization procedure able to meet geometrical constraints and the skin structural requirements due to the morphing. The final performance assessment of the three-dimensional high-lift configurations is performed by high-fidelity aerodynamic analyses. The design procedure is applied to a twin-prop regional aircraft equipped with a natural laminar flow wing. The morphing droop nose is compatible with an NLF wing that requires the continuity of the skin and, at the same time, extends the possibilities to improve the performances of the class of regional aircraft which usually are not equipped with conventional leading edge devices. Additionally, the morphing technology applied to the flap allows the design of a tracking system fully integrated inside the airfoil geometry, leading to a solution without external fairings and so with no extra friction drag penalty for the aircraft. 1. Introduction years later, Boeing started several research programs aimed at embedding active camber devices on board a military air- In the field of the innovative high-lift device technologies, the craft [3–5]. In the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration active camber morphing represents an interesting concept, (AFTI) program, by NASA and USAF, the F-111 wing was due to its capabilities to improve the aerodynamic perfor- equipped with control surfaces, driven by electrohydraulic mances and to redefine the takeoff and landing maneuvers actuators, based on sliding panels for the lower trailing edge, configurations, offering the possibility to be immediately and composite flexible panels for the upper trailing edge and installed on the existing wing without the need to replace for the leading edge. The AFTI/F-111 flight tests confirmed a the structural wing box. One of the main devices that allow performance increase of 20% in terms of aerodynamic effi- changing the wing camber is the morphing droop nose. ciency and 15% in terms of distributed load on the wing, Many applications of this concept are described by Friswell keeping constant the bending moment [6, 7]. in [1]. Around 1973, Boeing performed a wind tunnel test One of the most important contributions to the design of comparison on a wing equipped with hinged leading and morphing droop nose comes from Monner, who developed trailing-edge flaps, and then with smooth variable-camber different concepts during the years. At the beginning, he tried flaps that provided large improvements [2]. More than ten to replace the leading edge ribs with several plates, fitting into 2 International Journal of Aerospace Engineering Z the airfoil shape, and connected each other with rigid hinges, ZXXup whereas the skin is free to slide along the airfoil contour by Zup ff α means of joint and stringers that restore the required sti ness TE ∆Z r TE [8, 9]. The rib elements were optimized to minimize the le X βTE Z hinge stress. Afterwards, Monner continued his collabora- up TE Xlo X tion with EADS, within the SmartLED project, to realize a Z patent smart leading edge device to be used in a typical lo X=1 Z high-lift application and to replace the droop nose installed XXlo on the A380. This morphing droop nose was optimized to reach a deflection of 20 deg, keeping smooth the external sur- Figure 1: Airfoil parameterization used for numerical optimization face. Recently, different EU projects, such as SADE and SAR- (PARSEC). ISTU, started from Monner’s work to design a portion of a full-scale morphing droop nose composed of two main parts: a compliant skin and a rigid kinematic mechanism obtained by an integrate design [10]. Other projects also concerned gap. This advantage is greater in the case of the laminar wing the development of morphing flap [11, 12] and morphing where the NLF wing can be optimized for the high-speed trailing edge [13, 14] devices for the load control in both conditions and the same wing, equipped with the morphing high-speed and low-speed conditions. droop nose, for low-speed conditions. Nowadays, one of the most technologically advanced Starting from the studies carried out during the partici- companies in the field of adaptable shape structures is pation to previous EU projects, such as SARISTU and FlexSys Inc. which developed specific tools for the design of NOVEMOR [17, 18], the optimal morphing droop nose devices based on the compliant structure concept. They cover has been designed to be installed on the Green Regional Air- different fields of application, including morphing wing craft, in terms of both external morphing shape and internal equipped with seamless and hingeless leading and trailing compliant mechanism [19, 20]. In this manuscript, only the edge devices, without any rigid mechanism [15, 16]. They dedicated shape optimization process, adopted for the aero- are strongly focused on obtaining completely continuous dynamic shape design of the complete high-lift device, is and smooth surfaces able to optimize the aerodynamic effi- described starting from the “clean” NLF wing geometry. In ciency in different flight conditions. A compliant flap system order to obtain the maximum benefit in both high-speed was designed to maximize the laminar boundary layer over a and low-speed conditions, the NLF wing geometry was wide lift coefficient range by continuously optimizing the defined before, considering the cruise condition, by a shape shape throughout the mission. This technology was success- optimization based on the geometry parameterization from fully installed on the NASA Gulfstream aircraft by replacing PARSEC [21]. Afterwards, the morphing droop nose shape the original flap. was obtained by a second optimization procedure, based The work presented in this manuscript starts in the on the CST (class-shape transformation) parametric tech- framework of EU-funded Clean Sky 2 REG-IADP AG2 pro- nique [22, 23], extended to the description of 3D shapes ject, where innovative high-lift device technologies, able to for this work. The complete optimization procedure, includ- achieve new design requirements and suitable to be applied ing the designing of the flap system, has been applied to the to the natural laminar flow (NLF) wing of a Green Regional Green Regional Aircraft inside the Clean Sky 2 REG-IADP Aircraft, have been investigated. In a first step, the wing shape AG2 project. of the reference Green Regional Aircraft has been redesigned This paper summarizes the results obtained during this to obtain a large portion of natural laminar flow on both sur- work and is organized in three main parts: the optimization faces at cruise and off-design flight conditions. The aircraft of the NLF wing, followed by the flap system design; the configuration equipped with this new NLF wing has been morphing droop nose shape optimization; and the perfor- used as baseline for the design of innovative high-lift devices mance assessment at the aircraft level in
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