Investigation of the tail dihedral effects on the aerodynamic characteristics for the low speed aircraft

• Main Authors: Zhang, G. Q., Yu, S. C. M., Chien, A., Xu, Y.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aerodynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/85689; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18654
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The aerodynamic characteristics for the vee-tail aircraft configuration have been investigated numerically at low Reynolds number (Re < 10 6). Three types of vee-tails have been adopted to be compared with the conventional tail type (with horizontal and vertical tails).The results show that th...