UBRI experimental rig for the study of tandem and tilt-rotor systems
METHODOLOGY
An aircraft resembling the Vertical Aerospace VX-4 aircraft proposed by VAERO, is a good candidate powered lift vehicle for this kind of mission profile. Its main wing supports 4 pylons, each of them carrying one vertical axis propeller at its aft end providing lift at hovering conditions, and one tilt-rotor upstream of the wing providing either lift for hovering or thrust during the cruise. While the VX-4 data are obviously property of VAERO, an aircraft model will be derived from it and made public to constitute an open validation benchmark. The published dataset will include the CAD of the vehicle and propellers, and the numerical and experimental datasets.
Hybrid
Multi-fidelity
TARGET DESIGN CONCEPT
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