Análise ao uso a End-plates como dispositivos hipersustentadores em aviões da equipe Zeus Aerodesign

Abstract

The SAE Brazil AeroDesign competition is a yearly event hosted in the city of São José dos Campos, which aims to promote the knowledge and experience exchange between Engineering students from all over the country. Its main goal is that its participants develop and construct rádio controlled aircrafts capable of taking off with the heaviest weight possible. The <Xkão= Project was born in 2015 for this competition, and its main innovative characteristic was the usage of End-plates, devices designed to reduce the vortices formation on the tip of the wing, where these vortices are the main cause of the increase of the induced trawl and the decrease of the in-flight performance of the aircraft. To test the real effectiveness of the devices usage, two analyses were performed. The first one using mathematical simulations intrinsic to aeronautical engineering. The second one, was consisted of a visual comparison test between the old model, which didn’t have the end-plates, and the new one, with the insertion of those. Where, this comparison was possible throughout the use of computational tools and numerical methods