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Chankyu Son and Taewoo Kim
A novel actuator disk model (ADM) coupled with lifting-line theory is proposed in this paper. Several virtual planform blades are placed on a disk plane with a constant azimuthal interval, and the lifting-line theory is applied to each blade to predict t...
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Lingzhi Wang and Taoyong Su
An electrically controlled rotor (ECR) is a kind of swashplateless rotor that implements the primary control via the trailing-edge flap system instead of a swashplate and demonstrates great potential in vibration reduction and noise alleviation. In this ...
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Huadong Li, Daochun Li, Tong Shen, Dawei Bie and Zi Kan
X-shaped flapping wings have excellent maneuverability and flight capabilities under low-Reynolds-number conditions. An appropriate tail can extend the range of a vehicle and improve its stability. This study takes two typical configurations, the inverte...
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Sang-Gil Lee, Hyeon-Ho Yang, Reynolds Addo-Akoto and Jae-Hung Han
Flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) have the capability of performing various flight modes like birds and insects. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the various flight modes of FWMAVs in order to fully utilize the capability of the vehicle. ...
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Yadong Gao and Yang Xu
Variable diameter rotor can improve the flight performance of the aircraft both in hovering and forward flying and a duct can improve the rotor performance further both in force and efficiency. In previous studies, those two parts are always studied in t...
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Muhammad Yousaf Bhatti, Sang-Gil Lee and Jae-Hung Han
This paper proposes an approach to analyze the dynamic stability and develop trajectory-tracking controllers for flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FWMAV). A multibody dynamics simulation framework coupled with a modified quasi-steady aerodynamic model was...
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Jianchuan Ye, Jiang Wang and Peijian Lv
This paper studies the quadcopter?s mutual interference phenomenon. The flow field of the quadcopter at different flight speeds is simulated by solving the three-dimensional unsteady Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations with sliding mesh methods. ?V...
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Chenglong Zhou and Ming Chen
In this paper, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation method based on the polyhedral nested grid is developed. By comparing the simulation and test results of the hovering flow field of the Caradonna?Tung rotor, the forward flight flow field of ...
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G. Throneberry, M. Hassanalian and A. Abdelkefi
In this work, seven wings inspired from insects? wings, including those inspired by the bumblebee, cicada, cranefly, fruitfly, hawkmoth, honeybee, and twisted parasite, are patterned and analyzed in FlapSim software in forward and hovering flight modes f...
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