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About 50 % of the drag the aircraft experiences during flight occur due to the friction between the aircraft skin and the air. Laminar flow technologies, if applied to wings, nacelles, empennage reduce the surface friction significantly.
HYLTEC (HYbrid Laminar flow TECnology) is a follow-on activity to previous projects funded by the EC within the programme “Industrials and Materials Technologies” [1].
In order to improve the competitiveness of new and derivative products we consider the po?tential for HLFC-retrofit (Hybrid Laminar Flow Control — retrofit) already in the initial design phase.
The following results are a 1st pass approach to the requirements for the practical implementation and exploitation of HLFC on existing aircrafts resp. provisions for future ones. Several iterations in aerodynamics, systems and structure converged to the case of suction on the slat at moderate levels and (even with less constraints) suction at the nose of the empennage.
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Bieler, H., Swan, P. (2001). Retrofit Studies based on Airbus A310 for HLFC Application on Aircrafts. In: Thiede, P. (eds) Aerodynamic Drag Reduction Technologies. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics (NNFM), vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45359-8_8
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