The author presents an analysis on the development of Digital Image Correlation in various applications including strain measurement. He discusses the concept of strain …
BF Mettler - Experiments in Fluids, 2010 - Springer
This paper describes a methodology to extract aerial vehicles' aerodynamic characteristics from visually tracked trajectory data. The technique is being developed to study the …
M Alioli, P Masarati, M Morandini, R Albertani… - Aerospace Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
An approach for predicting time varying aerodynamic loads on a pitching membrane wing due to rotational pitching and steady airflow is presented. The proposed model utilizes …
Z Zhang, N Martin, A Wrist, JP Hubner - Journal of Aircraft, 2016 - arc.aiaa.org
To lessen the deterioration of fixed-wing aerodynamic performance associated with chord Reynolds numbers below 100,000, flexible membrane wing designs have been studied and …
Investigated and revealed are new insights into the individual, decoupled effects of induced camber and spanwise bending on the lift, drag, and endurance for an optimum flexibility …
S Buoso, BT Dickinson, R Palacios - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a numerical investigation on the closed-loop performance of a two- dimensional actuated membrane wing with fixed supports. The proposed concept mimics …