Networked embedded systems for active ow control in aircraft
Eduardo Tovar, Nuno Pereira, Iain Bate, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Sergio Penna, Jose Negrao, Julio C. Viana, Francois Philipp, Dirk Mayer, Jose Heras, Filipe Pacheco and Joao Loureiro
Aerodynamic drag is known to be one of the factors contributing more to increased aircraft fuel consumption. The primary source of skin friction drag during flight is the boundary layer separation. This is the layer of air moving smoothly in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft. In this paper we discuss a cyber-physical system approach able of performing an efficient suppression of the turbulent flow by using a dense sensing deployment to detect the low pressure region and a similarly dense deployment of actuators to manage the turbulent flow. With this concept, only the actuators in the vicinity of a separation layer are activated, minimizing power consumption and also the induced drag.
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@inproceedings{Tovar2012,
author = {Eduardo Tovar and Nuno Pereira and Iain Bate and Leandro Soares Indrusiak and Sergio Penna and Jose Negrao and Julio C. Viana and Francois Philipp and Dirk Mayer and Jose Heras and Filipe Pacheco and Joao Loureiro},
booktitle = {Proc 11th Int Workshop on Real Time Networks (RTN)},
title = {Networked embedded systems for active ow control in aircraft},
year = {2012}
}