An experimental and analytical study of a flow vectoring airfoil via macro-fiber-composite actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6930, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bilgen, Onur ^a   Kochersberger, Kevin B ^a   Inman, Daniel J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow vectoring; MFC; Smart structures; Unimorph actuator; Variable camber airfoil

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION SYSTEMS; AIR FLOWS; AIRFOIL DESIGN; ANALYTICAL STUDY; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; COMPOSITE ACTUATORS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); FLOW SPEEDS; HIGH DYNAMIC PRESSURE; LEADING EDGE (LE); MACRO-FIBER COMPOSITE (MFC) ACTUATORS; PIEZOCERAMIC (PZT); SMART STRUCTURES; STATIC RESPONSES; TRAILING EDGES; UNIMORPH; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS;

ACTUATORS; AERODYNAMICS; AIR; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CONCRETE BRIDGES; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAS DYNAMICS; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; MACROS; MECHANICS; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; MICROFLUIDICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PRESSURE; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY; TUNNELS; WIND TUNNELS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 44949244296     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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