Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Unsteady Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings at Re=10.000 100,000 for Micro-Air Vehicles-Final Report Report Title The overall project goal was to investigate low Reynolds number (10,000-100,000) flapping flight for MAV applications. Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) is used for unsteady aerody...

Number of Papers published in peer-reviewed journals: Number of Papers published in non peer-reviewed journals: Unsteady Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings at Re=10.000 100,000 for Micro-Air Vehicles-Final Report Report Title The overall project goal was to investigate low Reynolds number (10,000-100,000) flapping flight for MAV applications. Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) is used for unsteady aerody...

The goal of this work is to develop low-order models for the unsteady aerodynamic forces on a small wing in response to agile maneuvers and gusts. In a previous study, it was shown that Theodorsen’s and Wagner’s unsteady aerodynamic models agree with force data from DNS for pitching and plunging maneuvers of a 2D flat plate at Reynolds numbers between 100 and 300 as long as the reduced frequenc...

The possibility of predicting the full three-dimensional unsteady separated flow around complex ship and helicopter geometries is explored using unstructured grids with a parallel flow solver. The flow solver used is a modified version of the Parallel Unstructured Maritime Aerodynamics (PUMA) software, which was written by Dr. Christopher Bruner as part of his doctoral thesis at the Virginia Po...

Abstract. We investigate the aerodynamics of a surging, heaving, and yawing wind turbine with numerical simulations based on free-wake panel method. focus UNAFLOW (UNsteady Aerodynamics FLOating Wind turbines) case: surging which was modeled experimentally various methods. Good agreement experimental data is observed for amplitude phase thrust surge motion. achieve results wake that accurately ...