01.1 - Aircraft Design and Integrated System (Basics and Theory)
IDENTIFICATION OF THE IMPACT OF BLOWING ON THE AERODYNAMIC MODEL OF AN AIRPLANE WITH DISTRIBUTED ELECTRIC PROPULSION
S. Cacciola¹, L. Bottà¹, C.E.D. Riboldi¹, L. Trainelli¹; ¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This work deals with the identification of the aerodynamic properties of the SwitchMaster, a scaled Distributed Electric Propulsion demonstrator (DEP) aircraft with the final aim of modeling the impact of propeller blowing on the stability and control derivatives of the entire airplane. The demonstrator was designed and built at Politecnico di Milano to demonstrate the possible combination of distributed electric propulsion (DEP) configuration and different propulsive control logics that allow replicating in-flight behavior of a single-engine or a twin-engine airplane.