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{"title":"Odour-sensitive passenger comfort in small aircraft cabins","authors":"C. Nasoulis, S. Mantziou, V. Gkoutzamanis, A. Kalfas","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This work presents a numerical investigation targeting to simulate the slice of a small aircraft cabin as an experimental facility with a controlled environment, to assess passenger comfort when exposed to high volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations. The mixing and transport of chemical species are evaluated using computational fluid dynamics for 800 s of in-cabin actual flow time and measurements are taken every 10 s from selected computational nodes close to the passengers’ noses. The results are used to create a dataset that trains four different machine learning classifiers, namely, the Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes, and their performance is compared. Moreover, an additional simulation of the cabin with a filtering system utilising high-efficiency particulate air and activated carbon filters is conducted, to evaluate the impact of the molecular weight of the compounds on their residence time, and compare it to the simulation without the filters. Results indicate that the model is insensitive to the inlet air mass flow variation and that the mass of the VOCs measured in the monitored computational nodes remains relatively unaffected, meaning that the impact of the air-conditioning system setting is minor. Additionally, a Boruta feature selection algorithm is used to determine the importance of each measurement of the simulation and to form a dataset that will train the four machine learning classifiers. Furthermore, the comparison of the two simulations, the one with and the one without the filters, indicates that the residence time (RT) of the compounds is independent of their molecular weight, as they all show equivalent percentile reductions, with the naphthalene and styrene showing a 28.5% and 28.3% reduction respectively, compared to the simulation without the filters. Finally, in-cabin flow irregularities are present, disrupting the flow symmetry and suggesting that not all passengers share the same traveling experience.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77820216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Separated and vortical flow in aircraft aerodynamics: a CFD perspective","authors":"A. Rizzi","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.39","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the early era of aviation, Frederick Lanchester was both an inventor and a theoretician driven by the need for a theory of flight that would reduce the guesswork in designing new aircraft. His book Aerodynamics in 1907 laid down the early foundations of such a theory. The theory with contributions from others, notably Ludwig Prandtl, was refined to become the basis for the sleek designs of WWII aircraft brought about with little guesswork. New technology changed aircraft design radically with the increased speed of jet propulsion reaching into the transonic range with nonlinear aerodynamics. In the late 1940s and early 1950s substantial guesswork returned to aircraft design. The legacy of Lanchester et al., however, lived on with the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) that could guide designers through nonlinear transonic effects. This article presents a historical sketch of how CFD developed, illustrated with examples explaining some of the difficulties overcome in the design of the first-generation swept-wing transonic fighters. The historical study is forensic CFD in search for the likely explanation of the designer’s choice for the wing shape that went into production a long time ago. The capability of current CFD applied to the aerodynamics of aircraft with slender wings is surveyed. The cases discussed involve flow patterns with coherent vortices over hybrid wings and wings of moderate sweep. Vortex-flow aerodynamics pertains to understanding the interaction of concentrated vortices with aircraft components. Modern Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) technology is useful to predict attached flow. But vortex interaction with other vortices and breakdown lead to unsteady, largely separated flow which has been found out of scope for RANS. Direct simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations is out of computational reach in the foreseeable future, and the need for better physical modeling is evident. Both cruise performance and stalling characteristics are influenced by strong interactions. Two important aspects of wing-flow physics are discussed: separation from a smooth surface that creates a vortex, and vortex bursting, the abrupt breakdown of a vortex with a subsequent loss of lift. Vortex aerodynamics of not-so-slender wings encounter particularly challenging problems, and it is shown how the design of early-generation operational aircraft surmounted these difficulties. Through use of forensic CFD, the article concludes with two case studies of aerodynamic design: how the Saab J29A wing maintains control authority near stall, and how the Saab J32 mitigates pitch-up instability at high incidence.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"10 1","pages":"1065 - 1103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79688698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-objective reward shaping for global and local trajectory planning of wing-in-ground crafts based on deep reinforcement learning","authors":"H. Hu, D. Li, G. Zhang, Z. Zhang","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.43","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The control of a wing-in-ground craft (WIG) usually allows for many needs, like cruising, speed, survival and stealth. Various degrees of emphasis on these requirements result in different trajectories, but there has not been a way of integrating and quantifying them yet. Moreover, most previous studies on other vehicles’ multi-objective trajectory is planned globally, lacking for local planning. For the multi-objective trajectory planning of WIGs, this paper proposes a multi-objective function in a polynomial form, in which each item represents an independent requirement and is adjusted by a linear or exponential weight. It uses the magnitude of weights to demonstrate how much attention is paid relatively to the corresponding demand. Trajectories of a virtual WIG model above the wave trough terrain are planned using reward shaping based on the introduced multi-objective function and deep reinforcement learning (DRL). Two conditions are considered globally and locally: a single scheme of weights is assigned to the whole environment, and two different schemes of weights are assigned to the two parts of the environment. Effectiveness of the multi-object reward function is analysed from the local and global perspectives. The reward function provides WIGs with a universal framework for adjusting the magnitude of weights, to meet different degrees of requirements on cruising, speed, stealth and survival, and helps WIGs guide an expected trajectory in engineering.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78388362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Propulsion integration study of civil aero-engine nacelles","authors":"F. Tejero, D. MacManus, I. Goulos, C. Sheaf","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.49","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 It is envisaged that future civil aero-engines will operate with ultra-high bypass ratios to reduce the specific fuel consumption. To achieve the expected benefits from the new engine cycles, these new powerplants may mount compact nacelles. For these new configurations the aerodynamic coupling between the powerplant and the airframe may increase. For this reason, it is required to quantify and further understand the effects of aircraft integration for compact aero-engine nacelles. This study provides an insight of the changes in flow aerodynamics as well as quantification of the most relevant performance metrics of the powerplant, airframe and the combined aircraft system across a range of different installation positions. Relative to a conventional architecture, there is an aerodynamic benefit in net vehicle force of about 1.2% for a compact powerplant when installed in forward positions. This is the same improvement that was identified when the aero-engine nacelles were in isolation. However, for close-coupled installation positions, the aerodynamic benefit in net vehicle force erodes to 0.44% due to the larger effects of aircraft integration on compact nacelles.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81266541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distributed fixed-time control for six-degree-of-freedom spacecraft formation with event-triggered observer","authors":"J. Zhang, H. Xia, Z. Li","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.23","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper addresses the six-degree-of-freedom coupled control problem for spacecraft formation flying subject to actuator saturation and input quantisation whilst considering limited communication resources. Firstly, a novel event-triggered distributed observer without continuous communications is presented to recover the information of the virtual leader. Remarkably, by embedding a hyperbolic tangent function-based nonlinear term into the triggering condition, the event-based observer realises a more reasonable trigger threshold. Subsequently, an adding-a-power-integrator-based fixed-time control algorithm is proposed for the follower spacecraft. Further, the control scheme ingeniously compensates for the actuator saturation and the input quantisation problems without embedding auxiliary systems. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to highlight the advantages of the theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82206480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental wind-tunnel study of the dynamics of inverted foils for energy harvesting","authors":"M. Flores Salinas, R. Botez, M. Tavallaeinejad, M. Païdoussis","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.46","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper describes the methodology used to analyse oscillations of foils of a wide range of aspect ratios, 0.5 ≤ AR ≤ 4, and Reynolds numbers, 104 ≤ Re ≤ 105, for energy harvesting purposes. The foils were fixed at their trailing edge, and their dynamical behaviour was captured as the wind speed was varied. The foil response was then analysed as a function of velocity, Reynolds number, oscillation amplitude and frequency. Additionally, the forces and moments acting on the foils were measured, utilising an aerodynamic scale, designed and built in-house. An empirical power generation equation was derived to determine the foil characteristics for maximum energy harvesting production. The results show that a flexible foil with AR = 3 with oscillations in the large-amplitude regime is the most effective for energy harvesting.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76998152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework for optimising flight efficiency of a crossing waypoint by balancing flight conflict frequency and flight-level usage benefits","authors":"D. Sui, K. Liu","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.45","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 With the increase of air transportation, some crossing waypoints (CWPs) are becoming bottlenecks in the operation of air traffic networks. This paper presents a CWP operation optimisation framework based on a two-stage optimisation method. First, we considered the interests of airlines and air traffic controllers and established a flight-level dynamic allocation model for the CWP to minimise the flight-level deviation and the number of flight conflicts. A multi-objective, self-adaptive differential evolution-local search hybrid algorithm was used to solve the model in a parallel computing manner. Subsequently, a flight conflict resolution algorithm based on the Monte-Carlo tree search was designed for flight conflicts that existed after the optimisation. Finally, based on real operation data, four experimental scenarios were constructed, and the air traffic operation simulation system was used for experimental validation. For daily traffic and 1.2 times peak traffic scenarios, the average flight-level deviation reduction rates after optimisation were 53% and 39%, and the successful flight conflict resolution rates reached 89% and 75%, respectively. The experimental results showed that this optimisation framework can effectively balance the number of flight conflicts with the efficiency of flight-level usage and directly improve the capacity of the CWP, which can be used as a reference for air traffic control auxiliary decision support systems.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81967435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying the impact of heat in support seal configuration for aero engines","authors":"P. Sun, C. Liu","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.31","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Leakage, deformations, power loss, heat generation in the support seal system and other issues are typical when support seals are developed. The design of the support seal system has progressively evolved over recent decades as part of an ongoing effort to provide effective cooling for the aero engine secondary air system. In particular, oil heat management in the oil chamber has strict requirements, which limit the heat generation of the support seal system. The potential of supporting seal research with an oil system is investigated in this work. The combination of the CFD/FEA method and quantifying the heat generation entering the oil chamber allows for improvements not just to the individual buffer air seal unit, but the oil seal together. The analysis relies on the combination of quantifying heat generation entering the oil chamber to provide a mutual influence of neighbouring labyrinth seals. The mutual influence requires further analysis, considering the thermal deformation of the rotor/stator to provide further accurate geometry parameters in preliminary seal designs. The experimental test was conducted to verify the preliminary CFD-FEA loosely coupled analysis result, which reveals that in a turbine support seal system, the radius of the buffer air seal has a significant influence on the leakage flow rate and power loss of the oil seal, which should take into account the integral influence of the pressure difference of the oil seal caused by the radius change of the buffer air seal and the running clearance of the oil seal.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80166670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prediction of departure flight delays through the use of predictive tools based on machine learning/deep learning algorithms","authors":"J. G. Muros Anguita, O. Díaz Olariaga","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.41","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The objective of this research is to predict the delays in the departure of scheduled commercial flights through a methodology that uses predictive tools based on machine learning/deep learning (ML/DL), with supervised training in regression, based on the available flight datasets. Since the novel contribution of this work is, first, to make the comparison of the predictions in terms of means and statistical variance of the different ML/DL models implemented and, second, to determine the coefficients of the importance of the features or flight attributes, using ML methods known as permutation importance, it is possible to rank the importance of flight attributes by their influence in determining the delay time and reduce the problem of selecting the most important flight attributes. From the results obtained, it is worth mentioning that the model that presents the best performance is the ensemble or combinatorial method of random forest regressor models, with an acceptable prediction range (measured with the root-mean-square-error).","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77097495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vorticity dynamics diagnosis of the internal flow field in a high-load counter-rotating compressor","authors":"T. Yan, H. Chen, P. Yan","doi":"10.1017/aer.2023.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.40","url":null,"abstract":"A high-load counter-rotating compressor is optimised based on the method of coupling aerodynamic optimisation technology and computational fluid dynamics, and the flow structures in the passage are analysed and evaluated by vorticity dynamics diagnosis. The results show that the aerodynamic performance of optimised compressor are obviously improved at both design point and off-design point. By comparing the distribution characteristics of vorticity dynamics parameters on the blade surface before and after the optimisation, it is found that BVF (boundary vorticity flux) and circumferential vorticity can effectively capture high flow loss regions such as shock waves and secondary flow in the passage. In addition, the BEF (Boundary enstrophy flux) diagnosis method based on the theory of boundary enstrophy flux is developed, which expands the application scenario of the boundary vorticity dynamics diagnosis method. The change of vorticity dynamics parameters shows blade geometric parameters’ influence on the passage’s viscous flow field, which provides a theoretical basis for the aerodynamic optimisation design.","PeriodicalId":22567,"journal":{"name":"The Aeronautical Journal (1968)","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81923637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}