In the quest for greater efficiency of large transport aircraft, efforts to reduce wing drag through conventional aerodynamic tweaks have largely been exhausted, in the view of Airbus senior ...
Along with the open rotor engine, the Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft integrated technoogy demonstrator is one of the flagships of Clean Sky, in particular the development of a laminar wing. As Axel Krein, ...
Recent advances in flow dynamics and turbulence transition have significantly deepened our understanding of how laminar flows evolve into complex, chaotic turbulent regimes. While the phenomenon ...