%0 Journal Article
	%A A. Badarudin and  C. S. Oon and  S. N. Kazi and  N. Nik-Ghazali and  Y. J. Lee and  W. T. Chong
	%D 2013
	%J International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 75, 2013
	%T Numerical Simulation and Experiment of a Lifting Body with Leading-Edge Rotating Cylinder
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6639
	%V 75
	%X An experimental and simulation flight test has been carried out to evaluate the longitudinal gliding characteristics of a lifting body with blunted half-cone geometry. The novelty here is the lifting body's pitch control mechanism, which consists of a pair of leading-edge rotating cylinders. Flight simulation uses aerodynamic data from computational fluid dynamics supported by wind-tunnel test. Flight test consists of releasing an aluminum lifting body model from a moving vehicle at the appropriate wind speed while measuring the lifting body's variation of altitude against time of flight. Results show that leading-edge rotating cylinder is able to give small amounts of improvement to the longitudinal stability and pitch control to the lifting body.

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