The Effect of Canard Configurations to the Aerodynamics of the Blended Wing Body
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چکیده
The aerodynamics characteristics of a blended-wing body (BWB) aircraft were obtained in Universiti Teknologi MARA low speed wind tunnel. The scaled-down of BWB model consisted of a canard as its horizontal stabilizer. There were four canards with different aspect ratio used in the experiments. Canard setting angles were varied from -20 to 20 . All tests were conducted at velocity of 35 m/s, with Mach number 0.1. At low angles of attacks, the increment of lift slope for various canards’ aspect ratio is small and almost constant. Higher canard aspect ratio will cause higher drag. However, canard has a high effect to the moment at zero lift, CM,0. The visualization using mini tuff was performed to observe the airflow at the upper surface of canard. Keywords—Aerodynamics,blended-wing body, canard, wind tunnel.
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