Fixed and Flapping Wing Aerodynamics for Micro Air Vehicle Applications

Fixed and Flapping Wing Aerodynamics for Micro Air Vehicle Applications
Author: Thomas J. Mueller
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2001
Genre: Aerodynamics
ISBN: 9781600864469

This title reports on the latest research in the area of aerodynamic efficency of various fixed-wing, flapping wing, and rotary wing concepts. It presents the progress made by over fifty active researchers in the field.

Low Reynolds Number

Low Reynolds Number
Author: Mustafa Serdar Genç
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2012-04-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9535104926

This book reports the latest development and trends in the low Re number aerodynamics, transition from laminar to turbulence, unsteady low Reynolds number flows, experimental studies, numerical transition modelling, control of low Re number flows, and MAV wing aerodynamics. The contributors to each chapter are fluid mechanics and aerodynamics scientists and engineers with strong expertise in their respective fields. As a whole, the studies presented here reveal important new directions toward the realization of applications of MAV and wind turbine blades.

Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers

Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers
Author: Hugh W. Coleman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119417708

Helps engineers and scientists assess and manage uncertainty at all stages of experimentation and validation of simulations Fully updated from its previous edition, Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Fourth Edition includes expanded coverage and new examples of applying the Monte Carlo Method (MCM) in performing uncertainty analyses. Presenting the current, internationally accepted methodology from ISO, ANSI, and ASME standards for propagating uncertainties using both the MCM and the Taylor Series Method (TSM), it provides a logical approach to experimentation and validation through the application of uncertainty analysis in the planning, design, construction, debugging, execution, data analysis, and reporting phases of experimental and validation programs. It also illustrates how to use a spreadsheet approach to apply the MCM and the TSM, based on the authors’ experience in applying uncertainty analysis in complex, large-scale testing of real engineering systems. Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Fourth Edition includes examples throughout, contains end of chapter problems, and is accompanied by the authors’ website www.uncertainty-analysis.com. Guides readers through all aspects of experimentation, validation, and uncertainty analysis Emphasizes the use of the Monte Carlo Method in performing uncertainty analysis Includes complete new examples throughout Features workable problems at the end of chapters Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Fourth Edition is an ideal text and guide for researchers, engineers, and graduate and senior undergraduate students in engineering and science disciplines. Knowledge of the material in this Fourth Edition is a must for those involved in executing or managing experimental programs or validating models and simulations.

Low-speed Experimental Investigation of a Thin, Faired, Double-wedge Airfoil Section with Nose and Trailing-edge Flaps

Low-speed Experimental Investigation of a Thin, Faired, Double-wedge Airfoil Section with Nose and Trailing-edge Flaps
Author: Leonard M. Rose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1949
Genre: Aerofoils
ISBN:

A faired, double-wedge airfoil section, 4.23 percent thick, was investigated with plain nose and trailing-edge flaps. The nose flap was 0.16 chord of the airfoil and the trailing-edge flap was 0.25 chord of the airfoil. Section lift, drag, and pitching-momnet data are presented for a Reynolds number of 5,800,000 which corresponded to a Mach number of 0.17.

Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers

Aerodynamics of Low Reynolds Number Flyers
Author: Wei Shyy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780521204019

Low Reynolds number aerodynamics is important to a number of natural and man-made flyers. Birds, bats, and insects have been of interest to biologists for years, and active study in the aerospace engineering community, motivated by interest in micro air vehicles (MAVs), has been increasing rapidly. The primary focus of this book is the aerodynamics associated with fixed and flapping wings. The book consider both biological flyers and MAVs, including a summary of the scaling laws-which relate the aerodynamics and flight characteristics to a flyer's sizing on the basis of simple geometric and dynamics analyses, structural flexibility, laminar-turbulent transition, airfoil shapes, and unsteady flapping wing aerodynamics. The interplay between flapping kinematics and key dimensionless parameters such as the Reynolds number, Strouhal number, and reduced frequency is highlighted. The various unsteady lift enhancement mechanisms are also addressed, including leading-edge vortex, rapid pitch-up and rotational circulation, wake capture, and clap-and-fling.

Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Author: Cameron Tropea
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1570
Release: 2007-10-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540251413

Accompanying DVD-ROM contains ... "all chapters of the Springer Handbook."--Page 3 of cover.

Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows

Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows
Author: Vassilis Theofilis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-01-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319062603

This book contains the outcome of the international meeting on instability, control and noise generated by massive flow separation that was organized at the Monash Center, in Prato, Italy, September 4-6, 2013. The meeting served as the final review of the EU-FP7 Instability and Control of Massively Separated Flows Marie Curie travel grant and was supported by the European Office of Aerospace Research and Development. Fifty leading specialists from twelve countries reviewed the progress made since the 50s of the last century and discussed modern analysis techniques, advanced experimental flow diagnostics and recent developments in active flow control techniques from the incompressible to the hypersonic regime. Applications involving massive flow separation and associated instability and noise generation mechanisms of interest to the aeronautical, naval and automotive industries have been addressed from a theoretical, numerical or experimental point of view, making this book a unique source containing the state-of-the-art in separated flow instability and its control.

Distinct Aerodynamics of Insect-Scale Flight

Distinct Aerodynamics of Insect-Scale Flight
Author: Csaba Hefler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 110887522X

Insect-scale flapping wing flight vehicles can conduct environmental monitoring, disaster assessment, mapping, positioning and security in complex and challenging surroundings. To develop bio-inspired flight vehicles, systematic probing based on the particular category of flight vehicles is needed. This Element addresses the aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, geometry, stability and dynamics of flexible flapping wings in the insect flight regime. The authors highlight distinct features and issues, contrast aerodynamic stability between rigid and flexible wings, present the implications of the wing-aspect ratio, and use canonical models and dragonflies to elucidate scientific insight as well as technical capabilities of bio-inspired design.