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Title: Morphing New Technologies Applications on Aircraft

Abstract: Our LARCASE laboratory is equipped with two Unmanned Aerial Systems UAS-S4 and UAS-S45 from the Mexican company Hydra Technologies, two Level D flight simulators for the Cessna Citation X business aircraft and for the commercial regional jet CRJ-700 from CAE Inc., Cessna and Bombardier companies, and the Subsonic Blow Down Price-Païdoussis Wind Tunnel from McGill University. In this abstract, we present research done at our Laboratory of Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE at the École de technologie supérieure in University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada in the areas of Morphing Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies. All these equipments are used in our research realized for morphing aircraft and unmanned aerial systems with the aim to improve their aerodynamic performances, expressed in terms of drag reduction, lift, lift-to-drag ratio and rate of climb increased, delay of the flow transition from laminar to turbulent regime, stall delay, fuel consumption reduction and many other benefits. An overview of methodologies and results for the Cessna Citation X Business Aircraft Morphing Horizontal Tail and Winglet Aerodynamics Analysis, the CRJ-700 Regional Morphing Winglet Aerodynamic, Structural and Control Design, the Morphing UAS-S4 and UAS-S45 Aerodynamic and Structural Analysis, and various types of Morphing Wing Design, Manufacturing and Testing at the Price-Païdoussis Subsonic Wind Tunnel expressed in terms of Morphing Leading Edge and Trailing Edge designs will be presented in details, including their benefits for aerodynamic performance increase.

Bio: Dr Ruxandra Botez has finalized her Master’s in Engineering in Bucharest, Romania at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in 1984, her Master’s in Applied Sciences in Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada in 1989 and her PhD in McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1994. She worked at the ICA-Brasov Factory of Helicopters Puma and Alouette helicopters development in Romania (1984-1987) and at Bombardier Aerospace in Aircraft Engineering in Montreal as AeroServoElasticity task leader during 1995-1997. She worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at Auburn University during 1994-1995. She works as Full Professor at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), part of the Quebec University in Montreal, Canada since 1998. Ruxandra is the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Holder in Aircraft Modeling and Simulation Technologies since 2011, and she is the Founder and Head of the Laboratory of Applied Research in Active Controls, Avionics and AeroServoElasticity LARCASE since 2003. Ruxandra is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Canadian Aeronautical Society Institute (CASI), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and many other organizations. She is also an Honorary Foreign Member of the Romanian Academy and an Honorary Member of the International Sustainable Aviation and Energy Research Society (SARES). Ruxandra is the Editor-in-Chief of the INCAS Bulletin and Associate Editor of 10 other journals including the Aeronautical Journal. Ruxandra graduated more than 460 students in her academic career, who worked on her research projects: 24 PhD students, 140 Master’s students (projects and theses) and 300 Internship students. Ruxandra published more than 200 archival original journal articles, 340 conference papers and 7 invited book chapters. Ruxandra and her team have obtained more than 70 awards; she also gave more than 50 invited speaker presentations. Ruxandra’s projects were and are realized in collaboration with international teams from Bombardier, CAE, CMC Electronics, Bell Helicopter Textron, Thales Aerospace, GlobVision, FLIR Systems, IAR-NRC, Presagis and NASA, Alenia and CIRA, Hydra Technologies, DLR, INCAS and other.