The role of wing bending deflection in the aerodynamics of flapping micro aerial vehicles in hovering flight

B Forouzi Feshalami… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… the aerodynamic performance of flapping micro aerial vehicles by … of the airfoil wing is superior
to flexible and rigid wings. … Lift and thrust characteristics of flapping wing micro air vehicle (…

Aerodynamic comparisons of flexible membrane micro air vehicle wings with cambered and flat frames

AH Wrist, JP Hubner - … Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
aerodynamic force coefficients and membrane deformations … to measure the aerodynamic
forces for flexible membrane … In summary, the aerodynamic force coefficients from the …

Wing flexibility effects on the flight performance of an insect-like flapping-wing micro-air vehicle

AT Nguyen, JH Han - Aerospace science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
… favorable effects of wing flexibility on the aerodynamic force-… , wing deformation is not allowed
in the rigid wing structure. … , the lift coefficients of our rigid and flexible wing models while …

Experimental investigation of aerodynamics of flapping-wing micro-air-vehicle by force and flow-field measurements

S Deng, M Percin, B van Oudheusden - AIAA Journal, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
aerodynamic characteristics of a flapping-wing micro aerial … the behavior of the flexible
flapping wings were first assessed … due to wing flexibility effects and the varying lift coefficients of …

Coupled aeroelastic study of a flexible micro air vehicle-scale flapping wing in hovering flight

JL Lankford, I Chopra - Journal of Aircraft, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
… the wing deformations while flapping. Measured aerodynamic forces and wing deformations
… , such as higher drag coefficients and lower aerodynamic efficiency, due to low-Reynolds-…

Numerical simulation of a flexible x-wing flapping-wing micro air vehicle

S Deng, M Perçin, BW Van Oudheusden, H Bijl… - AIAA Journal, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
… of the flexible wings and its impact on the aerodynamic behavior of the micro air vehicle, the
wing-deformation … thrust coefficients are 0.3 and 0.25 for the double- and single-wing cases, …

Recent progress in flapping wings for micro aerial vehicle applications

N Haider, A Shahzad… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
aerodynamic and aeroelastic design of the flapping wing. … For a flapping-wing MAV, a
lightweight and flexible wing is … equal to horizontal thrust coefficient and vertical lift coefficient

Analysis of nonlinear aerodynamic performance and passive deformation of a flexible flapping wing in hover flight

L Chen, FL Yang, YQ Wang - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
… The flexibility of insect wings and model wings in flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs…
The unknown coefficients a 1 and a 2 can be determined by two pre-known twist angles at x …

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamics and dynamic stability of micro-air-vehicle with four flapping wings in hovering flight

C Cheng, J Wu, Y Zhang, H Li, C Zhou - Advances in Aerodynamics, 2020 - Springer
… , however, its effect on wing aerodynamic power consumption as well … Besides, the
stroke-averaged aerodynamic coefficientwings is mainly caused by wing’s flexible deformation. At …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical and Experimental Study of Aerodynamic Performances of a Morphing Micro Air Vehicle

R Bardera, ÁA Rodríguez-Sevillano, E Barroso - Applied Mechanics, 2021 - mdpi.com
… morphing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) with an adaptive wing … of lift coefficient (C L ), total
aerodynamic drag coefficient (C … advantages such as durability, flexibility, directional actuation, …