Investigation of morphable wing structures for unmanned aerial vehicle performance augmentation

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace Conference and Exhibit and AIAA Unmanned...Unlimited Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Subbarao, Kamesh ^a   Supekar, Abhijit H ^a   Lawrence, Kent ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive wing technology; Biomimetics; CFD; Linear static analysis; Modal analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE WING TECHNOLOGY; AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; AERODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; ANGLES OF ATTACK; BEAMS AND PLATES; CAD MODELS; CFD; COMBINED OPERATIONS; COTS TOOL; FINITE-ELEMENT REPRESENTATION; FIXED WING; FORCE BALANCES; INITIAL DESIGN; LIFT CURVES; LINEAR ACTUATOR; LINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS; OPERATING SPEED; PITCHING MOMENTS; RESEARCH CENTER; RESONANCE CONDITION; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; VIBRATIONAL MODES; WING ASSEMBLY; WING STRUCTURES;

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ASPECT RATIO; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FIXED WINGS; GAS DYNAMICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STATIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77958479790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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