In a collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR, Göttingen, Germany) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany), researchers ...

The integration of composite materials into modern wing designs has revolutionised the study of aeroelasticity by introducing pronounced geometric nonlinearities and anisotropic structural responses.

With final ground tests completed last week at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., the Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) program is preparing for its first flight in mid-October, ...

To increase the aerodynamic efficiency of the future generation of short- and medium-range aircraft, the aspect ratio (ratio of wingspan to wing area) is continuously increased. From an aeroelastic ...

Since birds are naturally efficient flyers, it is not surprising that they have served as an inspiration to both casual observers and serious scholars of flight. In fact, lessons learned from the ...

If you watch a B-52 Stratofortress sitting on the tarmac with a full fuel load, the first thing you will notice is that the wings appear to be drooping. The massive 185-foot wingspan does not hold ...

Reduced-order modelling (ROM) of aeroelastic dynamics seeks to bridge the gap between high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or experimental data and the practical demands of design, control ...