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International Journal of Modern Research in Engineering and Technology (IJMRET) www.ijmret.org Volume 4 Issue 6 ǁ June 2019. Review and Analysis of Variable Swept Wing Technology YongyueYUAN Binzhou University , China ABSTRACT : The wing sweep angle of a variable sweep wing aircraft is variable, and it can adapt to the better aerodynamic efficiency of the aircraft at different flight speeds. This is the greatest advantage of the variable sweep wing aircraft, which is different from the fixed wing aircraft. However, the variable swept wing aircraft also has the disadvantage of poor stability and large and complex actuator system. By reviewing the development history and research status of variable sweep wing aircraft, the advantages and disadvantages of variable sweep technology are analyzed, and several key executing agencies are listed. Finally, the development of variable sweep technology is prospected. KEYWORDS -wing, aerodynamic characteristics, variable sweep law, variable sweep mechanism I. INTRODUCTION aircraft has great research value.On the basis of The flight speed of aircraft has always summarizing scholars’ research on variable sweep been an important index to measure the flight wing, this paper summarizes in detail the structural performance of aircraft, especially for military forms of different variable sweep wing, and fighters with high maneuverability requirements, so analyses the flight principle of variable sweep wing. it is extremely important to improve their flight At the same time, the research status of variable speed. In November 2018, the J-20 and J-10B sweep wing aircraft at home and abroad is military aircraft showed excellent flight summarized. Finally, the structural forms and flight performance at the Zhuhai Air Show in China. of integrated wing are summarized.Based on the However, it is difficult for aircraft to maintain good principle, the development of variable sweep wing aerodynamic characteristics in the process of is prospected. increasing flight speed from low speed to high speed. Therefore, it has become the focus of II. DEVELOPMENT HISTORY OF THE academic research to improve this problem through WING the special design of aircraft shape, especially 2.1 Variable Swept Wing Technology wing. In 1944, German designer Messersmitt put Flat-wing aircraft has better performance forward the concept of variable sweep wing, and at low speed, but when the flight speed is in the designed the world's first variable sweep wing transonic stage, the shock resistance will increase concept aircraft, Me P. 1101, which put forward a geometrically with the increase of speed. Swept- new direction for aircraft design and manufacture. wing aircraft has the advantages of fast speed and After the end of World War II, Bell Laboratory in smooth flight at high speed, but its flight efficiency the United States designed the Bell X-5 which is low at subsonic speed. In conclusion, this changed the sweep angle in flight on the basis of contradiction can be improved if the sweep angle studying Me P.1101, and completed its test flight in of the wing can be changed during flight. Variable 1951. But the change of pressure center of gravity swept-wing aircraft emerged as the times require. will cause the nose to be pushed down and the The swept-back angle can be changed with the stability is poor. In the mid and late 1960s, General change of Mach number, angle of attack and other Dynamics and Grumman co-developed the F-111 flight parameters, so as to achieve high adaptability. dolphin (Aardvark), which is known as a variable This type has the advantages of high integrated swept-back aircraft in the true sense of production flight performance and low fuel consumption, and and service, but was abandoned due to its far can play a higher operational efficiency in different overweight.The F-14 developed by Grumman combat missions. Therefore, variable swept wing Company in 1968 is the most advanced. Its wing is www.ijmret.org ISSN: 2456 - 5 6 2 8 Page 9 International Journal of Modern Research in Engineering and Technology (IJMRET) www.ijmret.org Volume 4 Issue 6 ǁ June 2019. controlled by an airborne computer and can realize III. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF VARIABLE automatic step less change of sweep angle from 20 SWEPT WING ~68. However, the shortcomings of high cost and maintenance limit its practicability. 3.1. Technical characteristics Because of the variable sweep angle of the After a long period of bottleneck and low tide of development, the idea of combining variable wing, the variable sweep aircraft has better swept wing technology with UAV was put forward, aerodynamic efficiency at different flight speeds, this ushered in a new life for the development of which is also the biggest advantage different from variable swept wing. And new intelligent materials the fixed-wing aircraft. When a variable sweep are constantly found, which provides a material wing aircraft is flying at low speed, it can use a basis for them.In 1980, China launched a large- smaller sweep angle, which increases the lift of the scale ministerial variable swept wing technology leading edge of the wing and increases the research project, which took more than eight years efficiency of the wing. When the aircraft is flying to achieve significant results. However, due to the at supersonic speed, it can use a larger sweep angle, limitation of the level of science and technology, which can improve the acceleration performance the attempt of Qiang-6 was forced to declare failure. and high-speed flight ability of the aircraft. Since then, there has been no substantial progress Therefore, variable swept wing aircraft in the research of variable swept wing technology also has the characteristics of short skiing distance in China. and good landing performance. It has good gust response characteristics in low altitude flight. It is 2.2.Application Status of Variable Swept Wing often used in fighter, fighter, heavy bomber and The design of variable swept wing other aircraft, such as Tu-160 of the former Soviet combines the aerodynamic advantages of the Union, B-1 bomber of the United States and so aircraft at low and high speeds.It can make the on.At the same time, there are two main aircraft have excellent flight performance in both shortcomings: first, the change of wing sweep low and high speeds. At present, domestic research angle will result in the change of aerodynamic institutes and institutions of higher learning is center position, which will affect the flight stability continually carrying out in-depth research on this of the aircraft; second, the existence of variable issue, mainly focusing on the research of optimal sweep wing is driven by complex mechanisms and variable sweep law, new variable sweep control systems, which increases the weight of the mechanism, modeling method of variable sweep fuselage, reduces the flexibility, and also reduces wing and computer solution calculation. the hanging point of the wing and reduces the LU Jizhaoused genetic algorithm and maintainability. For example, F-14 fighters are still CAITA and Fluent software to study the optimal overweight at the expense of conventional design variable sweep rule of variable sweep wing at mid- and manufacturing procedures, and the cost of low altitude. LIU Lu and others used CFD manufacturing and maintenance is high. Therefore, numerical simulation method and MATLAB the variable swept wing technology needs to software to solve the optimal sweep law at continue to improve the driving mechanism and specified height. WANG Zhao designed a spring structure to ensure that the aerodynamic center adaptive variable rear wing mechanism, and changes within a reasonable range and reduces the simulated its variable sweep law with weight for easy maintenance. aerodynamics and kinematics, which verified the feasibility of the new mechanism. HUANGMinghe 3.2. Mechanisms of variable swept wing used Radau Pseudospectral Method (RPM) to Since the concept of variable swept wing conceptually design and optimize the trajectory of a was put forward by Germany in 1944, the variable swept wing tactical missile at hypersonic development of variable swept wing aircraft has speed, and calculated the optimal value.In addition, been restricted by its complex structure, large other scholars have carried out detailed studies on weight, complex operation and high maintenance gliding trajectory optimization design, drag cost. Up to the last 20 years, new materials and characteristics analysis, dynamics control and technologies have been proposed, which are simulation, UAV design and aerodynamics of expected to make breakthroughs in adaptive variable swept wing missiles. aircraft and open up a new path for the www.ijmret.org Page 10 International Journal of Modern Research in Engineering and Technology (IJMRET) www.ijmret.org Volume 4 Issue 6 ǁ June 2019. development of variable swept wings. Therefore, enough to fully play the advantages of variable the design of variable swept wing structure is swept wing. At present, the application of variable swept wing technology in large aircraft has been particularly important. Simplifying the structure relatively mature, but due to the continuous form, reducing the volume and weight of the structure and reducing the maintenance cost have advancement of new technologies and materials, this technology still has great potential. If the become an important task for the application and technology of variable swept wing is popularized in development of the wing. Hydraulic mechanism, small adaptive aircraft, it will certainly bring a new crank rocker mechanism and slider mechanism are revolution in this field. typical mechanisms used in variable sweep wing. It can bring new development to the Hydraulic mechanism is mostly used in traditional large-scale man-made control aircraft. traditional large-scale and high-speed aircraft, and From the point of view of current development, the its sweep angle depends on the stroke of push rods research of variable swept wing UAV is still in its on both sides.
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