UBSTANTIAL reductions in the fuel burn of future aircraft have been targeted both in the US
1 and in Europe2 in order to lower the cost of air travel and alleviate the impact of aviation …

I. Introduction kin friction constitutes about 50% of the drag budget of a business jet or a long
haul transport aircraft (Ref. 1–3). Therefore, reduction in skin friction has the potential of …

Boundary-layer stability analyses of mean flows extracted from unstructured-grid Navier–
Stokes solutions have been performed. A procedure has been developed to extract mean …

Kin friction constitutes about 50 percent of the drag budget of a business jet or a long haul
transport aircraft, 1-3 as depicted in Fig. 1. Therefore, reduction in skin friction has the …

Previous flight research programs have sampled laminar flow control at a single control
point, usually a cruise condition. In the case of the presently discussed swept-wing-glove …

Nonlinear parabolized stability equations and secondary-instability analyses are used to
provide a computational assessment of the potential use of the discrete-roughness-element …

The Subsonic Aircraft Roughness Glove Experiment is an in-flight experiment designed to
meet the NASA Environmentally Responsible Aviation project requirements. The goal of the …

The Flight Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University has proposed conducting both
natural laminar flow and passive laminar flow control flight-test experiments through NASA's …

Previous flight research programs have sampled laminar flow control at a single control
point, usually a cruise condition. Tucker, et al.[1],[2] developed a laminar flow control flight …

Previous flight research programs have sampled laminar flow control (LFC) at a single
control point, usually a cruise condition. In the case of the presently discussed swept-wing …