Aerodynamic interactions of two airfoils in unsteady motion
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Aerodynamic interactions of two airfoils in unsteady motion
zbMATH Open document ID: 1027.76068
DOI: 10.1007/BF01178543
published in: Acta Mechanica
publication date: 2004-01-04T00:00:00Z
review text: The flight of dragonflies and damselflies, which have two pairs of interfering wings, is obviously superior to that of other larger insects. They are capable of fast take-off, long-time hovering and quick manoeuvre. Scientists have always been fascinated by their flight. Here the authors study unsteady flow interactions between two airfoils that perform a simple but typical motion. In this motion, the two airfoils parallelly move forward and down with the same constant velocity and angle of attack after an initial start. This motion is representative of the downstroke motion of the wing sections for a dragonfly beating its wings in phase (parallel stroking). Dragonflies use parallel stroking for high-lift situations such as rapid accelerations, take-off and hovering (in these modes of flight, forces used for weight support or acceleration are produced mainly by the downstroke). Moreover, this motion is relatively simple. Therefore, it is chosen as the first step in this study of the unsteady flow interactions between the dragonfly fore- and hindwings. A numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations using moving overset grids is employed in the study.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76Z10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76D05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92C10
zbMATH DE Number: 1660494
zbMATH Keywords: dragonflies
zbMATH Keywords: interactions of two airfoils
zbMATH Keywords: tandem configuration
zbMATH Keywords: single-grid solver
zbMATH Keywords: damselflies
zbMATH Keywords: interfering wings
zbMATH Keywords: surface pressure distribution
zbMATH Keywords: lift coefficients
zbMATH Keywords: third-order flux-difference splitting technique
zbMATH Keywords: second-order central difference scheme
zbMATH Keywords: parallel stroking
zbMATH Keywords: Navier-Stokes equations
zbMATH Keywords: moving grids
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
cites work: Aerodynamic properties of a wing performing unsteady rotational motions at low Reynolds number
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01178543
OpenAlex ID: W2089758207
author: S. L. Lan
author: M. Sun
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