Aerodynamic Investigation of Smart Flying Wing MAV

Abstract

Numerical simulations are performed to assess the feasibility of using embedded piezo sensors-actuators within thin wings to make them adaptive and therefore more aerodynamically efficient. If the method is found attractive and validated, could lead to design of practical smart MAV wings, but it also has more general application.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 19, 2009
Accession Number
ADA511003

Entities

People

  • Arnab Roy

Organizations

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airfoils
  • Airframes
  • All Wing Aircraft
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Drag Reduction
  • Flow
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Incompressible Flow
  • Micro Air Vehicles
  • Pressure Distribution
  • Reynolds Number
  • Simulations
  • Thin Wings
  • Two Dimensional
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Robotics and Automation.