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    Aeronautical Engineering: A special bibliography with indexes, supplement 72, July 1976

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    This bibliography lists 184 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in June 1976

    Aeronautical Engineering: A continuing bibliography, supplement 120

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    This bibliography contains abstracts for 297 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in February 1980

    Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography, supplement 122

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    This bibliography lists 303 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in April 1980

    Aeronautical Engineering. A continuing bibliography, supplement 115

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    This bibliography lists 273 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in October 1979

    Aeroelastic Optimization of MW Wind Turbines

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    Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 319)

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    This report lists 349 reports, articles and other documents recently announced in the NASA STI Database. The coverage includes documents on the engineering and theoretical aspects of design, construction, evaluation, testing, operation, and performance of aircraft (including aircraft engines) and associated components, equipment, and systems. It also includes research and development in aerodynamics, aeronautics, and ground support equipment for aeronautical vehicles

    Experimental investigations on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic characteristics of small UAS propellers

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    Unmanned aerial system (UAS) is a hot topic in both industry and academia fields. As a popular planform, the rotary-wing system gains more attentions. The small UAS propeller is the most important component in this system, which transfers electric energy into kinetic energy to accomplish fly missions. In the present work, several experimental studies have been performed to investigate the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic characteristics of small UAS propellers. First of all, by conducting force and flow filed measurements, the unsteady dynamic thrust and the wake structure of the propeller has been studied to explore the fundamental physics to help researchers and engineers to obtain a better understanding. Secondly, two kinds of bio-inspired the propellers have been designed and manufactured. Through a set of force, sound, and flow filed measurements, the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance of these propellers has been compared to the baseline propeller to evaluate the effects of aerodynamic efficiency and noise attenuation. It was found that the serrated trailing edge propeller could reduce the turbulent trailing edge noise up to 2 dB, and the maple seed inspired propeller could reduce the noise up to 4 dB with no effect on the aerodynamic performance. In addition, since the rotary-wing system consists more than one propeller, the rotor to rotor interaction on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic performance also has been studied. By enlarging the separation distance between two propellers, the thrust fluctuation and noise generation could be restricted. Not only the design of the device itself has effect on the flying performance, the extreme weather also would affect it. Therefore, an icing research study on the small UAS propeller has been conducted to illustrate how does the ice formed on the propeller and how does the icing influence the aerodynamics performance and power consumption. During these experimental studies, the force measurements were achieved by a high sensitive force and moment transducer (JR3 load cell), which had a precision of ñ0.1N (ñ 0.25% of the full range). The sound measurements were conducted inside of the anechoic chamber located in the aerospace engineering department at Iowa State University. This chamber has a physical dimensions of 12ÃÂ12ÃÂ9 feet with a cut-off frequency of 100 Hz. The detailed flow structure downstream of the propeller was measured by a high-resolution digital PIV system. The PIV system was used to elucidate the streamwise flow structure downstream of the propeller. Both “free-run” and “phase-locked” PIV measurements were conducted to achieve the ensemble-average flow structure and detailed flow structure at certain phase angles

    Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 289)

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    This bibliography lists 792 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in Mar. 1993. Subject coverage includes: design, construction and testing of aircraft and aircraft engines; aircraft components, equipment, and systems; ground support systems; and theoretical and applied aspects of aerodynamics and general fluid dynamics
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