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Experimental analysis of the dynamics of flared folding wingtips via a novel tethered flight test (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Healy, F., Pontillo, A., Rezgui, D., Cooper, J. E., Kirk, J., Wilson, T., & Castrichini, A. (2021). Experimental analysis of the dynamics of flared folding wingtips via a novel tethered flight test. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum

Recent developments in morphing wing technologies are routinely tested using Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their relatively low cost and time to manufacture. However, atmospheric flight tests limit both the repeatability of the recorded data... Read More about Experimental analysis of the dynamics of flared folding wingtips via a novel tethered flight test.

Low-order aeroelastic modelling of a high aspect ratio wing aircraft under constrained motion (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Pontillo, A., Banneheka Navaratna, P. D., Ascham, J., Lowenberg, M. H., Rezgui, D., Cooper, J. E., & Neild, S. A. (2021). Low-order aeroelastic modelling of a high aspect ratio wing aircraft under constrained motion. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1306

The work presented in this paper describes the modelling of a low-order aeroelastic solver, built with the aim of analysing the dynamics of very flexible wing aircraft, with a focus on the coupling between the flight dynamics and the structural dynam... Read More about Low-order aeroelastic modelling of a high aspect ratio wing aircraft under constrained motion.

Design and assessment of subscale flexible high aspect ratio cantilever wings (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Banneheka Navaratna, P. D., Pontillo, A., Rezgui, D., Lowenberg, M. H., Neild, S. A., & Cooper, J. E. (2021). Design and assessment of subscale flexible high aspect ratio cantilever wings. In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-1305

High aspect ratio wings have been the focus of several recent studies for efficiency improvements in modern aircraft. Many numerical studies can be found in literature with some experimental validations. The work presented here describes the design,... Read More about Design and assessment of subscale flexible high aspect ratio cantilever wings.

Aeroelastic damping estimation for a flexible high-aspect-ratio wing (2021)
Journal Article
Tsatsas, I., Pontillo, A., & Lone, M. (2022). Aeroelastic damping estimation for a flexible high-aspect-ratio wing. Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 35(2), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AS.1943-5525.0001390

Estimation of aeroelastic damping for a very flexible high-aspect-ratio wing using wind-tunnel test data is presented in this work through the comparison of four different methods: half-power, half-quadratic gain, an adapted version of random decreme... Read More about Aeroelastic damping estimation for a flexible high-aspect-ratio wing.