Evolutionary optimization of a morphing wing with wind-tunnel hardware in the loop

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 399-409

  Boria, Frank ^a,b   Stanford, Bret ^a,b   Bowman, Scott ^a,b   Ifju, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION MECHANISMS; AERODYNAMIC APPLICATIONS; AIR VEHICLES; ANGLES OF ATTACKS; BALANCE MEASUREMENTS; CAMBER CONTROLS; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; DISCONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; ELECTRICAL HYSTERESIS; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLIGHT LOADS; HARD WARE IN THE LOOPS; MORPHING; MORPHING WINGS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL DESIGNS; RESPONSE SURFACES; REYNOLDS; SHAPE CONTROLS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOWS; WIND-TUNNEL; WING MORPHING;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; AIRFOILS; COMPUTER CRIME; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEFORMATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GAS DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TUNNELS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

SHAPE OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 60049093003     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.38941     Document Type: Article

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