Technology Identification, Evaluation, Selection, and Optimization of a HALE Solar Aircraft by Ju-Yeol Yun, Ho-Yon Hwang

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Thermal transport energy performance on tangent hyperbolic hybrid nanofluids and their implementation in concentrated solar aircraft wings by Obalalu Adebowale Martins, Khan Umair, Olayemi Olalekan Adebayo, Zaib Aurang, Ishak Anuar, Sherif El-Sayed M.

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Thermal efficiency enhancement of solar aircraft by utilizing unsteady hybrid nanofluid: a single-phase optimized entropy analysis by Jamshed, Wasim, Alanazi, Abdullah K., Mohamed Isa, Siti Suzilliana Putri, Banerjee, Ramashis, Eid, Mohamed R., Nisar, Kottakkaran Sooppy, Alshahrei, Hashem, Goodarzi, Marjan

“…Meanwhile, the combination between solar radiations and nanotechnology is utilized in solar aircraft (SA). Therefore, this article investigated the working function of parabolic trough solar collector (PTSC) to analyze the performance of SA wings. …”

Unsteady Radiative Maxwell Fluid Flow over an Expanding Sheet with Sodium Alginate Water-Based Copper-Graphene Oxide Hybrid Nanomaterial: An Application to Solar Aircraft by S. Chandrasekaran, M. Satyanarayana Gupta, Sanju Jangid, K. Loganathan, B. Deepa, Dinesh Kumar Chaudhary

“…Maxwell fluid stream with two nanoparticles is going towards a trough with a parabolic form and is situated within the solar aircraft wing to investigate the phenomena of heat transfer rate. …”
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Energy-Optimized Trajectory Planning for Solar-Powered Aircraft in a Wind Field Using Reinforcement Learning by Zeyi Xi, Di Wu, Wenjun Ni, Xiaoping Ma

“…It is used to optimize the flight trajectory and improve the energy management capability of HALE solar aircraft to enhance long-endurance performance. …”
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Mathematical modelling of graphene-oxide/kerosene oil nanofluid via radiative linear extendable surface by Faisal Shahzad, Wasim Jamshed, Mohamed R. Eid, Sayed M. El Din, Ramashis Banerjee

“…This research examines the consequences of mixing nanosolid materials on PTSC installed on a solar aircraft wing, as well as the production of entropy. …”
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Research on aerodynamic optimization design method and flow mechanism of a high-subsonic compressor cascade by Song Huang, Xingen Lu, Ge Han, Shengfeng Zhao, Chuangxin Zhou, Chengwu Yang

“…Designing the high-performance, high-subsonic airfoils suitable for different Reynolds number flow is the major challenge for high-altitude long-endurance drones and ultra-high altitude solar aircraft. To overcome the difficulties, this paper proposed a set of aerodynamic optimization design methods that combine the improved category shape function transformation method, parallel computational fluid dynamics, and an improved whale optimization algorithm. …”
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Energy Acquisition of Solar-Powered Joint-Wing Aircraft Considering Mismatch Power Loss by Xinzhe Ji, Kangwen Sun, Xiao Guo, Mou Sun

“…However, the energy derived from solar irradiation is influenced by the time of year and latitude, which limits the energy acquisition ability of solar aircraft with a straight-wing configuration. Hence, unconventional configurations based on increasing wing dihedral to track the sun are proposed to improve energy acquisition at high-latitude regions in winter, which may involve power loss caused by mismatch in the photovoltaic system. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Study on the Performance of Double Membrane Wing for Long-Endurance Low-Speed Aircraft by Liang Zhang, Dongli Ma, Muqing Yang, Yuan Yao, Yayun Yu, Xiaopeng Yang

“…Flexible membrane structure is generally used as wing skin for long-endurance low-speed aircraft, such as solar aircraft, to control the structure weight within the allowable range. …”
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Design of power device sizing and integration for solar-powered aircraft application by Danjuma, Safyanu Bashir, Omar, Zamri, Abdullah, Mohd Noor

“…The power device constitutes the PV cell, rechargeable battery, and maximum power point tracker. Solar aircraft lack proper power device sizing to provide adequate energy to sustain low and high altitude and long endurance flight. …”
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Minimal Surfaces as an Innovative Solution for the Design of an Additive Manufactured Solar-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by César García-Gascón, Pablo Castelló-Pedrero, Juan Antonio García-Manrique

“…The conceptual design and manufacturing of a solar aircraft, SolarÍO, using additive technologies, is presented. …”
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