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-…

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, …

Effects of camber angle on aerodynamic performance of flapping-wing micro air vehicle

SH Yoon, H Cho, J Lee, C Kim, SJ Shin - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
… to small flyers with the maximum dimension about 15 cm that mimic … is their wing flexibility,
which tends to deform significantly … the coefficients of the generalized- α method and a scaling …

Aerodynamic performance of flexible flapping wings deformed by slack angle

R Addo-Akoto, JS Han, JH Han - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
… suitable wing for a flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicle wing … accurate enough to measure the
forces on a flexible wing. There … with a flexible wing to extract the aerodynamic coefficients in …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of wing flexibility on aerodynamic performance of an aircraft model

GUO Qinfeng, HE Xi, W Zhuo, W Jinjun - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2021 - Elsevier
… of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (… It was shown that the flexible
wing could deform and vibrate … 9 shows the differences of lift coefficient ΔC L between FW2 …

The airfoil design and parameter optimization of the deformable micro air vehicle

S Huang, H Qiu, Y Wang - Engineering Computations, 2023 - emerald.com
… suitable deformation airfoil for fixed-wing micro air vehicle (… that the lift coefficient of the
multi-parameter deformed airfoil … change the aerodynamic shape of the airfoil by using flexible

[HTML][HTML] Aerodynamic performance of a flyable flapping wing rotor with dragonfly-like flexible wings

Y Pan, S Guo, J Whidborne, X Huang - Aerospace Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
… and measured stiffness, the study validates the flexibility of … Biomimetic micro air vehicles
inspired by the flapping flight of … coefficients, as well as the elastic deformations at the wing root …