Thrust generation caused by flapping airfoils in a biplane configuration

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2003-05-01

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Tuncer, İsmail Hakkı
Kaya, Muhammed Çağrı

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Unsteady, viscous flows over flapping airfoils in a biplane configuration are computed on moving overset grids. The overset grid solutions are obtained in parallel in a distributed memory environment. Unsteady flowfields are described by particle traces: Time-averaged thrust values are obtained from the integration of the unsteady drag coefficient. It is shown that airfoils in a biplane configuration and oscillating in a combined pitch and plunge motion with a proper phase shift between them produce 20-40% more thrust than a single flapping airfoil. Turbulence in the flow further augments the thrust generation. For a maximum thrust at a given flapping frequency, an optimization of the flapping motion parameters is needed.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30868

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JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT

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https://doi.org/10.2514/2.3124

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İ. H. Tuncer and M. Ç. Kaya, “Thrust generation caused by flapping airfoils in a biplane configuration,” JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT, pp. 509–515, 2003, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30868.