An experimental study was conducted to investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of a bioinspired corrugated airfoil compared with a smooth-surfaced airfoil and a flat plate at the chord Reynolds number of ReC = 58,000–125,000 to explore the potential applications of such bio-inspired corrugated airfoils for micro air vehicle designs. In addition to measuring the aerodynamic lift and drag for...

Z-shaped folding wings have the potential to enhance flight performance of an aircraft, contingent upon its mission requirements. However, current scope research on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with primarily focuses analysis their structure and aeroelasticity-related vibrations. Computational fluid dynamics methods dynamic meshing are employed examine process wings. By comparing steady aero...

L OW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER airfoil aerodynamics is important for bothmilitary and civilian applications. The applications include propellers, sailplanes, ultralight man-carrying/man-powered aircraft, high-altitude vehicles, wind turbines, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and micro air vehicles (MAVs). For the applications just listed, the combination of small length scale and low flight velocities re...

In order to understand the effects of the unsteady aerodynamic excitations in complex flow field on blades, on the basis of the data obtained from the single-stage axial flow compressor, three kinds of exciting forms in the compressor had been studied, including the correlation between excitations and responses in the upstream blade row wake, inlet distortion and rotating stall. Results showed ...