Effect of lateral, downward, and frontal gusts on flapping wing performance

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2016.08.016zbMATH Open1390.76453OpenAlexW2519384717MaRDI QIDQ1647151FDOQ1647151

Authors: Nail K. Yamaleev, Martin L. Jones 

Publication date: 26 June 2018

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.08.016

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zbMATH Keywords

micro air vehiclelow-Reynolds-number flowdownward gustfrontal gustlateral gust

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10)

Cites Work

• An implicit upwing algorithm for computing turbulent flows on unstructured grids
• Local preconditioners for steady and unsteady flow applications

Cited In (4)

• Aerodynamic response of a bristled wing in gusty flow
• Gust induced aerodynamic force prediction on a transport wing using quasi-steady approximation
• Wind effects on bounding flight
• On the recurrence signatures of flapping wings exposed to gusty simple shear flow

Uses Software

• FUN3D

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