Distributed propulsion system for rotorcraft
This project is investigating the potential benefits of distributed propulsion for rotorcraft. DPS allows for efficiency and redundancy gains and can be used to enhance the overall vehicle performance. Using different types of propellers on a single aicraft and placing these at appropriate, optimal locations is a difficult engineering problem that this project aims to address.
Airframe design analysis |
Lift changes brought by wing anhedral/dihedral angles |
This work is ongoing and more high-fidelity simulation results are to be released by the 1st of November.
Contacts
G. Barakos (Professor), George.Barakos@glasgow.ac.uk
G. Qiao (Research Assistant), g.qiao.1@research.gla.ac.uk
UoG Contributions to the GARTEUR AG 26 Group
Glasgow University is contributing to the AG26 team mainly via numerical simulations of the different experimental setups put forward.