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Skin design studies for variable camber morphing airfoils

Smart Materials and Structures, 2008
This paper identifies the desirable attributes of a flexible skin of a morphing wing. The study is conducted using airfoil camber morphing as an example. The ideal flex-skin would be highly anisotropic, having a low in-plane axial stiffness but a high out-of-plane flexural stiffness.
Farhan Gandhi, Phuriwat Anusonti-Inthra
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Structural Analysis of Morphing Airfoils for Camber Adaptive Wing

Volume 2: Integrated System Design and Implementation; Structural Health Monitoring; Bioinspired Smart Materials and Systems; Energy Harvesting, 2015
The chord-wise bending airfoil wing could be achieved by employing a kind of active morphing skin which was embedded with pneumatic muscle fibers. This camber morphing structure involves the discipline of structural mechanics which is analysed in this paper.
Ning Feng, Liwu Liu, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng   +3 more
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Simulation of Separation Control on a Morphing Wing with Conformal Camber

35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, 2005
Low Reynolds number flows, such as those encountered by Micro Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, have a tendency towards separation. A possible means of reducing this separation is through the application of an oscillatory morphing wing shape, in which an actuator serves to change the airfoil profile.
Vamsidhar Katam, Raymond LeBeau, Jamey Jacob   +2 more
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Bio-Inspired Coupling of Camber and Sweep in Morphing Wings

Volume 2: Modeling, Simulation and Control; Bio-Inspired Smart Materials and Systems; Energy Harvesting, 2016
This work aims to investigate how bio-inspired morphing wings built with state-of-the-art materials affect the aerodynamics and extend the range of flight conditions. In particular, this study investigates the aerodynamic effects of coupled airfoil and planform sweep morphing.
Amin Moosavian, Lawren L. Gamble, Alexander M. Pankonien, Daniel J. Inman   +3 more
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Potential Aerodynamics Benefits of the Camber–Morphing Wing

25th AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, 2023
Dr. Promio Charles F, Prakash Kumar, Syed Muzzammil, Aneesh Prabhu, Kaarthik Shanker   +4 more
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Investigation of the optimal elastic and weight properties of passive morphing skins for camber-morphing applications

Smart Materials and Structures, 2016
The aerodynamic performance of wing structures is directly related to their external geometry. The idea of seamless shape adaptation of the wing geometry (or morphing) has emerged to provide the capability of operating optimally in a wide range of conditions.
Francesco Previtali, Andres F Arrieta, Paolo Ermanni   +2 more
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Numerical Study of Camber Morphing in NACA0012 Airfoil

AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM, 2020
Karthick Dhileep, D. Kumar, Santanu Ghosh, Shaikh Faruque Ali, Arockiarajan A   +4 more
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A flexible sandwich structure skin for camber morphing wing

Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials
This study explores the feasibility of a flexible sandwich structure skin with a foam core for wing morphing applications and, introduces a novel self-adjusting assembly technique for integration with internal morphing mechanisms. The skin comprises of polypropylene face sheets and a soft acrylic foam core bonded with pressure-sensitive adhesive ...
P.N. Gautham Vigneswar, Shaikh Faruque Ali, A. Arockiarajan   +2 more
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CFD/CSD Coupling for Camber Morphed Rotor Blades

AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 2022
Amine Abdelmoula, Muhammed Kürsat Yurt, Dominik Komp, Manfred Hajek, Juergen Rauleder   +4 more
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Effects of skin morphing on aerodynamics of variable camber wings

Variable camber wings (VCWs) adapt to various flight conditions by adjusting the curvature of wings. Most research focuses on replacing the wing’s main structure with the morphing alternatives. The present study gives a new scheme by integrating the skin morphing into the rigid flap. Two kinds of regional skin morphing are considered. Firstly, the skin
Tong Guo, Yupeng Feng, Wei Xia, Ye Li, Tianlong Lin, Shuling Hu   +5 more
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