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About Liang Chan
In 2023, Liang Chan led the aerodynamic redesign of the A320neo’s winglet system, replacing traditional blended winglets with a morphing, bio-inspired ‘feathered’ trailing edge that adapts mid-flight to reduce vortex drag by 18% on regional routes. His breakthrough wasn’t just computational; it emerged from fieldwork at Chengdu’s high-altitude test airfield, where he instrumented retired Y-7 turboprops with low-cost MEMS sensors to validate laminar flow models under monsoon humidity and thermal turbulence, conditions most Western simulators ignore. He speaks Mandarin, English, and aerospace CFD code with equal fluency, and insists every new airframe must pass the ‘rice-paddy test’: if its noise signature can’t be drowned out by wind rustling through flooded paddies near rural Sichuan airstrips, it isn’t quiet enough. His notebooks are filled with hand-drawn cross-sections beside ink sketches of dragonfly wings and bamboo joints, not as metaphors, but as direct structural precedents.
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- “How did your Y-7 field tests change how you model boundary-layer transition?”
- “What trade-offs did you make when integrating piezoelectric actuators into the A320neo winglet?”
- “Why does your 'rice-paddy test' use acoustic masking instead of decibel thresholds?”
- “Can morphing winglets work on hydrogen-powered aircraft without thermal warping?”