Combined passive and active flow control for fixed-wing micro air vehicles

This study presents the design, implementation, and assessment of a combined passive active flow control technique with aim increasing aerodynamic performance fixed-wing Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). Power consumption restrictions in MAVs support choice solutions such as use modified (tubercled) wing leading edge. strategy successfully allows to delay mitigate stall but detrimental effects are found at pre-stall operating conditions. In order retrieve lift-generation capabilities baseline pre-stall, subsidiary method making air blowing was designed installed wing. Guidance selection optimum settings provided by experimental computational analyses. The resulting hybrid system demonstrated its effectiveness, thus producing generalized lift enhancements irrespectively attitude