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The application of active circulation control allows shortening of runways which can be significant in particular cases. The goal of the present paper is to study the influence of the circulation control on the aeroelastic behaviour of wings. For numerical analyses, a simplified computational model is presented, which allows for systematic parameter variations. The model is based on model reduction using modal analysis, so that an efficient performance of numerical studies is possible as well as the integration of the aeroelasticity into a flight dynamics model.
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Financial support has been provided by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) in the framework of the Sonderforschungsbereich 880. Special thanks go to Kay Sommerwerk from the Institute of Aircraft Design and Lightweight Structures for the design of the structural model, and to Marco Burnazzi from the Institute of Fluid Mechanics for creating the grids for the flow simulations.
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Krukow, I., Dinkler, D. A reduced-order model for the investigation of the aeroelasticity of circulation-controlled wings. CEAS Aeronaut J 5, 145–156 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-013-0097-5
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