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Unsteady helicopter rotor aerodynamics are complicated. This paper reviews some of the fundamentals and newer developments of unsteady helicopter aerodynamics. Rotor flow is beautiful and complex. Visualizing rotor flow allows for an appreciation of the following theories and solution attempts as well as nature’s complexities. The flow through a helicopter rotor with forward motion is shown in ...

Motivated by our interest in unsteady aerodynamics of insect flight, we devise a computational tool to solve the Navier–Stokes equation around a two-dimensional moving wing, which mimics biological locomotion. The focus of the present work is frequency selection in forward flapping flight. We investigate the time scales associated with the shedding of the trailingand leading-edge vortices, as w...

An unsteady aerodynamics model of a flexible unmanned air vehicle is presented in this paper. The unsteady aerodynamics results from structural vibrations of the flexible airframe which affect the airflow around it. The doublet lattice method, which is a potential flow based panel method, is used for obtaining the basic unsteady aerodynamics model. It gives the pressure distribution on a liftin...

Wing flapping is one of the most widespread propulsion methods found in nature; however, the current understanding of the aerodynamics in bird wakes is incomplete. The role of the unsteady motion in the flow and its contribution to the aerodynamics is still an open question. In the current study, the wake of a freely flying European starling has been investigated using long-duration high-speed ...

Retrospective cost adaptive control is applied to low Reynolds number aerodynamics around an SD7003 airfoil with a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) actuator located near the leading edge. The adaptive control algorithm uses knowledge of Markov parameters to capture information about any nonminimum-phase zeros in the dynamics. In this paper, we explore the impact of the adaptive controller on ...

The aerodynamics of micro air vehicles (operating at the chord Reynolds number of 10 5 or below) is substantially influenced by the unsteadiness of the wind gust and the aircraft’s light weight. In this effort, we investigate the active flow control of the dielectric barrier discharge actuator for flows around the SD7003 airfoil, with the chord Reynolds number of 6×10 4 , to enhance our underst...

The basis of this work was to understand the generation of lift and thrust of a flapping biwing ornithopter, which is influenced by its geometrical, dynamic, kinematic and aerodynamic features by following a generic approach in order to identify and mimic the mechanisms. As further development of earlier work, three-dimensional rigid thin wing is considered in flapping and pitching motion using...