Morphing wings have a large potential to improve the overall aircraft performances, in a way
like natural flyers do. By adapting or optimising dynamically the shape to various flight …

Bird-like flapping-wing vehicles with a high aspect ratio have the potential to fulfill missions
given to micro air vehicles, such as high-altitude reconnaissance, surveillance, rescue, and …

Bird flight incorporates complex multi-degree-of-freedom motions, such as flapping, pitching,
twisting, and folding. The aerodynamic mechanism of these complex movements, especially …

Morphing wings can improve aircraft performance during different flight phases. Recently
research has focused on steady aerodynamic characteristics of the morphing wing with a …

Reliable aerodynamic and aeroelastic simulations of advanced aeronautical/mechanical
systems require us to predict flow-induced forces as accurately as possible. Nowadays …

A methodology to simulate the unsteady, nonlinear aeroelastic behavior of a folding-wing
concept in multiple flight configurations is presented. It is based on a partitioned or co …

In this work, the authors present a two-dimensional computational model for predicting the
aeroelastic response as well as the output power of vertically arranged harvesters by taking …

The lifting-line theory is widely used for obtaining aerodynamic performance results in
various engineering fields, from aircraft conceptual design to wind-power generation. Many …

In the last decades, the unsteady vortex-lattice method (UVLM) has gained a lot of
acceptance to study large onshore–offshore wind turbines (WTs). Furthermore, and due to …

This paper presents the analytical linearization of aerodynamic loads (computed with the
unsteady vortex-lattice method), which is formulated as tangent matrices with respect to the …