Kunhui Huang, Zhitao Zhang, Dawei Liu, Changchuan Xie
DOI Number: N/A
Conference number: IFASD-2024-011
High-efficiency distributed propellers have emerged as a propulsion option for future transportation, necessitating a thorough understanding of the propellers’ slipstream performance and aerodynamic interaction with a wing under a variety of operating situations. At low subsonic speed and typical rotational speed, an experimental gust wind study was carried out to examine the impacts of the distributed propellers’ thrust and slipstream on a flexible wing with a 300 mm wing-chord. A fiber optic sensing system was designed and deployed on the beam surface aimed to measure the time-domain response of wingtip deformation. The results demonstrate the accuracy of the measurement system in predicting structural deformation and aerodynamic performance under various gust situations.