Wu-Bin Kong

Efficient Parametric Analysis Framework for Rotor/Wing Hover Interference of DEP Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

During hover, DEP unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) suffer severe aerodynamic interference between rotor downwash and the wing, causing thrust loss. High-fidelity CFD can capture the interference physics but is too costly for iterative design. Existing reduced-order models (ROMs) are fast, but their predictions of wing d...