01 - Aircraft Design and Integrated Systems
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON PROPULSION AND AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A DUAL-BODY DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC PROPULSION AIRCRAFT
X.-Y. Zhang¹, Z.-H. Gao¹, T. Lei¹, X.-B. Zhang¹, W. Zhang¹; ¹Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
To analysis the aerodynamic and propulsion characteristic of a Dual-Body Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft, series experiments were conducted in this research. The test result shows that the boundary layer ingestion effect and thrust/drag effect of the Electric Ducted Fan under different thrust level of the propulsion unit may both contributed to the coupling characteristics.