A Suction Panel Concept for Additive Manufacturing
摘要
Laminar aircraft are one step towards reaching eco-efficient aviation. However, high system complexity and significant manufacturing effort prevent the wide usage of existing laminarisation concepts, such as laminar flow control, which are rarely found in commercial aircraft. Hybrid laminar flow control concepts reduce the manufacturing effort significantly at the cost of only achieving partial laminar flow. This chapter presents extended hybrid laminar flow control concepts for fully laminar wings with reduced system complexity. A generic design space for suction structures is assembled from different existing solutions and extended with additive manufacturing capabilities. A detailed study of structural and aerodynamic requirements provides the foundation to assess partial design solutions and to select promising concepts. Based on the generic design space, this chapter introduces a concept for additively manufactured suction panels with an integrally printed micro-perforated suction surface and quasi-continuous support structure realised with triply periodic minimal surface sheet networks, allowing significant internal airflow. This concept is the foundation of this thesis’s mechanical and aerodynamic investigations.