Exploring the Fluid Dynamics of an Electric Short TakeOff and Landing (eSTOL) Aircraft (Part 1 of 3)
In this article we describe our efforts in collaboration with Electra to model an eSTOL aircraft using computational fluid dynamics. The full article consists of three parts: Part I provides essential background motivation for carrying out this study and how we section the full problem into smaller pieces. Part II will detail the modeling strategy and discuss the computational fluid dynamics approach. Part III will showcase the results from this study and how they helped us to better understand the...