TY - JOUR
AU1 - Nicolosi, Fabrizio
AU2 - Ciliberti, Danilo
AU3 - Della Vecchia, Pierluigi
AU4 - Corcione, Salvatore
AU5 - Cusati, Vincenzo
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Purpose</jats:title>
<jats:p>This work aims to deal with a comprehensive review of design methods for aircraft directional stability and vertical tail sizing. The focus on aircraft directional stability is due to the significant discrepancies that classical semi-empirical methods, as USAF DATCOM and ESDU, provide for some configurations because they are based on NACA wind tunnel (WT) tests about models not representative of an actual transport airplane.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title>
<jats:p>The authors performed viscous numerical simulations to calculate the aerodynamic interference among aircraft parts on hundreds configurations of a generic regional turboprop aircraft, providing useful results that have been collected in a new vertical tail preliminary design method, named VeDSC.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Findings</jats:title>
<jats:p>The reviewed methods have been applied on a regional turboprop aircraft. The VeDSC method shows the closest agreement with numerical results. A WT test campaign involving more than 180 configurations has validated the numerical approach.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Practical implications</jats:title>
<jats:p>The investigation has covered both the linear and the non-linear range of the aerodynamic coefficients, including the mutual aerodynamic interference between the fuselage and the vertical stabilizer. Also, a preliminary investigation about rudder effectiveness, related to aircraft directional control, is presented.</jats:p>
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<jats:title content-type="abstract-subheading">Originality/value</jats:title>
<jats:p>In the final part of the paper, critical issues in vertical tail design are reviewed, highlighting the significance of a good estimation of aircraft directional stability and control derivatives.</jats:p>
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TI - A comprehensive review of vertical tail design
JF - Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: An International Journal
DO - 10.1108/aeat-11-2016-0213
DA - 2017-07-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/a-comprehensive-review-of-vertical-tail-design-b0qaa0cbp3
SP - 547
EP - 557
VL - 89
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -