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Aerospace, 2022 Conventional aircraft use discrete flight control surfaces to maneuver during flight. The gaps and discontinuities of these control surfaces generate drag, which degrades aerodynamic and power efficiencies.
Peter L. Bishay +10 more
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Comparative Aerodynamic Performance Analysis of Camber Morphing and Conventional Airfoils [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2021 This paper aims to numerically validate the aerodynamic performance and benefits of variable camber rate morphing wings, by comparing them to conventional ones with plain flaps, when deflection angles vary, assessing their D reduction or L/D improvement.
Tuba Majid, Bruce W. Jo
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Aerodynamic Analysis of Variable Camber-Morphing Airfoils with Substantial Camber Deflections
EnergiesIn recent years, morphing wings have become not only a concept, but an aerodynamic solution for the aviation industry to take a step forward toward future technologies. However, continuously morphing airfoils became an interesting answer to provide green
Marta Marciniuk +7 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Morphing airfoil is a promising technology for future aircraft to realize all-stage high performance. In the present paper, a conceptual aircraft with morphing airfoil is proposed and the aerodynamic characteristics of three types of morphing airfoils ...
Yuwei Cheng +4 more
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Enhanced Range and Endurance Evaluation of a Camber Morphing Wing Aircraft
Biomimetics, 2023 Flight range, endurance, maneuverability, and agility are the key elements that determine an aircraft’s performance. Both conventional and morphing wing aircraft have been well studied and estimated in all aspects of performance.
Bruce W. Jo, Tuba Majid
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Analysis and optimization of a camber morphing wing model [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2016 This article proposes a camber morphing wing model that can continuously change its camber. A mathematical model is proposed and a kinematic simulation is performed to verify the wing’s ability to change camber.
Bing Li, Gang Li
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Wind Tunnel Tests of 3D-Printed Variable Camber Morphing Wing
Aerospace, 2022 This paper introduces the realization and wind tunnel testing of a novel variable camber wing equipped with compliant morphing trailing edges. Based on the aerodynamic shape and compliant mechanisms that were optimized in advance, a wind tunnel model ...
Sijia Jia +4 more
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Development of aeroelastic modeling and analysis for wing camber morphing technology
Hangkong gongcheng jinzhan, 2023 As one of the morphing methods, wing camber morphing technology has received great attention. Starting from the relevant projects of morphing wing at home and abroad, the aeroelastic modeling and analysis means of the camber morphing technology are ...
NI Yingge +3 more
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Aerodynamic Analysis of Camber Morphing Airfoils in Transition via Computational Fluid Dynamics
Biomimetics, 2022 In this paper, the authors analyze an important but overlooked area, the aerodynamics of the variable camber morphing wing in transition, where 6% camber changes from 2% to 8% using the two airfoil configurations: NACA2410 and NACA8410.
Bruce W. Jo, Tuba Majid
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Aerodynamic Performance Estimation of Camber Morphing Airfoils for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [PDF]
Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management, 2020 This paper proposes a methodology to harvest the benefits of camber morphing airfoils for small unmanned aerial vehicle (SUAV) applications. Camber morphing using discrete elements was used to morph the base airfoil, which was split into two, three, and ...
T Rajesh Senthil Kumar +3 more
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