Atenção!


O atendimento às questões referentes ao Repositório Institucional será interrompido entre os dias 20 de dezembro de 2024 a 5 de janeiro de 2025.

Pedimos a sua compreensão e aproveitamos para desejar boas festas!

 

Role of active morphing in the aerodynamic performance of flapping wings in formation flight

dc.contributor.authorBillingsley, Ethan
dc.contributor.authorGhommem, Mehdi
dc.contributor.authorVasconcellos, Rui [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorAbdelkefi, Abdessattar
dc.contributor.institutionNew Mexico State University
dc.contributor.institutionAmerican University of Sharjah
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-28T19:44:36Z
dc.date.available2022-04-28T19:44:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-01
dc.description.abstractMigratory birds have the ability to save energy during flight by arranging themselves in a V-formation. This arrangement enables an increase in the overall efficiency of the group because the wake vortices shed by each of the birds provide additional lift and thrust to every member. Therefore, the aerodynamic advantages of such a flight arrangement can be exploited in the design process of micro air vehicles. One significant difference when comparing the anatomy of birds to the design of most micro air vehicles is that bird wings are not completely rigid. Birds have the ability to actively morph their wings during the flapping cycle. Given these aspects of avian flight, the objective of this work is to incorporate active bending and torsion into multiple pairs of flapping wings arranged in a V-formation and to investigate their aerodynamic behavior using the unsteady vortex lattice method. To do so, the first two bending and torsional mode shapes of a cantilever beam are considered and the aerodynamic characteristics of morphed wings for a range of V-formation angles, while changing the group size in order to determine the optimal configuration that results in maximum propulsive efficiency, are examined. The aerodynamic simulator incorporating the prescribed morphing is qualitatively verified using experimental data taken from trained kestrel flights. The simulation results demonstrate that coupled bending and twisting of the first mode shape yields the highest propulsive efficiency over a range of formation angles. Furthermore, the optimal configuration in terms of propulsive efficiency is found to be a five-body V-formation incorporating coupled bending and twisting of the first mode at a formation angle of 140 degrees. These results indicate the potential improvement in the aerodynamic performance of the formation flight when introducing active morphing and bioinspiration.en
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering New Mexico State University
dc.description.affiliationDepartment of Mechanical Engineering American University of Sharjah
dc.description.affiliationCampus of São João da Boa Vista São Paulo State University (UNESP)
dc.description.affiliationUnespCampus of São João da Boa Vista São Paulo State University (UNESP)
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Cancer Institute
dc.description.sponsorshipIdNational Science Foundation: OAC-2019000
dc.description.sponsorshipIdNational Cancer Institute: U54 CA132383
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones5030090
dc.identifier.citationDrones, v. 5, n. 3, 2021.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/drones5030090
dc.identifier.issn2504-446X
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85114883524
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/222411
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofDrones
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectActive morphing
dc.subjectAerodynamic performance
dc.subjectFlapping wings
dc.subjectFormation flight
dc.subjectV-shape arrangement
dc.titleRole of active morphing in the aerodynamic performance of flapping wings in formation flighten
dc.typeArtigo

Arquivos

Coleções