As part of the ongoing research on micro air vehicles, the present work focuses on the effect of membrane flexibility on the aerodynamic performance of flexible latex flapping wings …
JW Johnston, W Romberg, PJ Attar… - Journal of Aircraft, 2010 - arc.aiaa.org
The idea of using small-scale vehicles, often termed micro air vehicles, for various surveillance applications has become increasingly popular in recent years. A micro air …
TA Shams, SIA Shah, MA Ahmad - 2018 IEEE 21st International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerodynamic research is primarily divided into two parts; fly higher, fly faster and fly low, fly slow. This research is focused towards the later part of aerodynamic advancements, which …
UK Chakravarty, R Albertani - Journal of Aircraft, 2011 - arc.aiaa.org
MICRO air vehicles (MAVs) are small (wing span on the order of 100 mm) and can fly at low flight speeds (up to 15 m= s) in areas, where operate large aircraft are not feasible or …
UK Chakravarty - Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2013 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Analytical and finite element models are developed for investigating the modal characteristics of a hyperelastic rubber latex membrane for micro air vehicle wings …
NI Ismail, AH Zulkifli, RJ Talib… - … Journal of Micro Air …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Vortex formation has numerous influences on the aerodynamic characteristics of fixed-wing micro air vehicle wings. Despite the mature understanding of vortices on fixed-wing and …