Numerical Simulation of a Flexible X-Wing Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle

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2017-07-01

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Deng, S.
Perçin, Mustafa
van Oudheusden, B. W.
Bijl, H.
Remes, B.
Xiao, T.

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Numerical simulations were performed to investigate the flowfield around a flexible flapping-wing micro air vehicle using an in-house-developed computational fluid dynamics solver. To include the dynamics of the flexible wings and its impact on the aerodynamic behavior of the micro air vehicle, the wing-deformation pattern during flapping was experimentally determined by a stereovision measurement. These data were subsequently interpolated to be employed as prescribed flapping kinematics in the numerical flow simulations, using a computational fluid dynamics solver that is based on a deformable overset-grid method. The computational results of the hovering configuration provide a quantitative prediction of the unsteady aerodynamics of the flapping-wing micro air vehicle in terms of aerodynamic force production and flow structures. The formation and evolution of the leading-/trailing-edge vortex and tip vortex were visualized. Additionally, by introducing an incoming freestream flow velocity in the simulations, the flowstructure related to the forward-flight configuration is investigated. The forces and the flow structures are compared with the experimental results from force and digital-particle-image-velocimetry measurements; a good agreement was illustrated that further evidenced the capability of the numerical methodology proposed in the present study.

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Flight, Flows, Vortices, Aerodynamics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36676

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AIAA JOURNAL

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https://doi.org/10.2514/1.j054816

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Department of Aerospace Engineering, Article

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S. Deng, M. Perçin, B. W. van Oudheusden, H. Bijl, B. Remes, and T. Xiao, “Numerical Simulation of a Flexible X-Wing Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle,” AIAA JOURNAL, pp. 2295–2306, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36676.