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

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Boria, Frank ^a   Stanford, Bret ^a   Bowman, William ^a   Ifju, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; CAMBERS; FLOW SEPARATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRAIN GAGES; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC APPLICATIONS; DISCONTINUOUS OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ELECTRICAL HYSTERESIS; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 78549235079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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