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Aerodynamics I
Technical Session B: Wed. May 6, 2026
Aerodynamic Characterization of a Non-Conventional High-Efficiency Tiltrotor Concept
Valerio Rossetti,
Federico Gentile,
Andrea Mancini,
Mirko Zaccara,
Carlo Cassinelli,
Riccardo Bianco Mengotti
CFD-CSD-FCS Free-Flight Co-Simulation Correlations with S-92A Maneuvering Flight Tests
Jinggen Zhao,
Jonathan Litwin,
Matt Luszcz,
Patrick Bowles,
Karl Scherer,
Joseph Nicholas,
Daniel Schuster,
Tyler Sinotte
Experimental Study Of Fuselage Spacing On The Development Of The Vortex Ring State
Alexander Croke,
Gwilym Watson,
Richard Green
High-fidelity Aerodynamic Investigation of Rotors within the Vortex Ring State
Tao Zhang,
Archie Francis,
George Barakos
HVAB Rotor Hover Predictions: From Rapid to High-Fidelity Simulations
François Richez,
Pierre-Marie Basset,
Ronan Boisard,
Johan Valentin
Mid-Fidelity Investigation of the Proprotor-Wing Aerodynamic Interactions across the Tiltrotor Conversion Maneuver
Pranav Sridhar,
Marilyn J. Smith
Numerical Investigation of Vortex Ring State Conditions for Archer Maker eVTOL Tilter Propeller
Alex Zanotti,
Alberto Savino,
Diego Norena,
David Palmer,
Dario Isola,
Giovanni Droandi
Aerodynamics II
Technical Session C: Wed. May 6, 2026
Aerodynamic Design and Experimental Characterization of an Airfoil at Low Reynolds Numbers
Sneha Jacob,
Cibin Joseph,
Juan Miranda,
Camli Badrya,
Moble Benedict
Effect of Forced Boundary Layer Transition on Hovering Rotor Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
Joseph Harris,
Akhilesh Sriram,
Robert Deters,
Shreyas Narsipur
From Simulation to Flight: Validation of the Racer Low-Drag Rotor Hub
Damien Desvigne,
Paul Eglin,
Martin Embacher,
Raphaël Fukari,
Damien Piger
Hovering Rotor Performance Prediction Throughout the Design Cycle
Byung-Young Min,
Brian Wake
Optimization of Rotor Blade Airfoils Using Compressible Unsteady Flow Simulations for Hover and Forward Flight Performance
Cibin Joseph,
Camli Badrya
PIV Investigation of Helicopter Rotor Hub and Cowling Wake Mitigation
Luca Celada,
Mirko Zaccara,
Alex Zanotti,
Gabriele Giuseppe Campanardi
Aerodynamics III
Technical Session D: Thurs. May 7, 2026
An Investigation of the Effect of Real Ship Geometry Variations on Experimental and Computational Ship Airwake Results
Alanna Wall,
Weixing Yuan,
Richard Lee,
Chris Sideroff
Experimental Correlation of Ship Airwake and Rotorcraft Unsteady Loads under Longitudinal Gusts with PIV and Gust Generator
Steven Yon,
Sicheng Kevin Li
Measurement Techniques and Data Evaluation for VTOL Outwash Maps
Claus Christian Wolf,
Johannes Niklas Braukmann,
Julien Schwalbe,
Till Silas Weise,
Anthony Donald Gardner,
Richard Brown
Measurements of Ship-Airwake-Rotor Coupling Using Controlled Aerodynamic Rotor Scales
Guillermo Mazzilli,
Kaijus H. Palm,
Zheng Zhang,
Ebenezer Gnanamanickam,
J. Gordon Leishman
Outwash Test Results for a Single Rotor in Hover (Presentation Only)
Ethan Romander,
Alyna Anderson,
Haley Cummings,
Michelle Dominguez,
Avraham Gileadi,
Kristen Kallstrom,
Michael Radotich,
Alex Sheikman,
Dorsa Shirazi,
Nathanial Smith,
Gloria Yamauchi
Qualitative Visualisations of the Flow Around a BO105 Helicopter in Ground Effect
Tony Gardner,
Johannes Braukmann,
Christian Wolf
Subscale Wind Tunnel Experiments on the Aerodynamics of a Rotor Approaching the Landing Deck of a Generic Destroyer
Wei-Han Chen,
Dounya Jarrad,
Juergen Rauleder
Aerodynamics IV
Technical Session E: Thurs. May 7, 2026
Advances in Lattice-Boltzmann Modeling of Proprotor–Wing Aerodynamics: Boundary Conditions and Proprotor Model Comparisons
Alex Natelson,
Juergen Rauleder
Experimental Investigation of Propeller–Wing Interactions during Dynamic Tiltrotor Conversion Maneuver
Andrew Semelka,
Juergen Rauleder
Interactional Aerodynamics of the ERC ROMEO eVTOL
Jonathan Pflüger,
Alexander Wick,
Jan-Arun Faust,
Marco Stuhlpfarrer
Physical Characterization of Aerial Screw Aeromechanics in Axial Climb and Forward Flight
Ron Berlin,
Koushik Marepally,
James Baeder
Simulation of Flow Around ROBIN-Mod7 Fuselage with PSP Rotor using Viscous Surface-Vorticity Compressible-Flow Panel Method
Shahfiq Shahjahan,
Vivek Ahuja,
Roy J. Hartfield
Wind Tunnel Flowfield and Performance Measurements of a Dynamically-Scaled Lift- and Thrust-Compounded Rotorcraft in High-Speed Flight
Vivek Uppoor,
Chloe Johnson,
Inderjit Chopra