Avian-Inspired Multifunctional Morphing Vehicles

Abstract

To understand how morphological and kinematic parameters of bird wings determine unsteady aeromechanics and to build new concepts of morphing wing aircraft by combining this information with recent advances in active materials and distributed sensing and adaptive control methodologies

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Mar 23, 2016
Source ID
FA95501610087

Entities

People

  • Daniel J Inman

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • United States Air Force
  • University of Michigan

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science