篇名 | The Investigation of Lift Force Performance for a Fixed Wing Micro Aero Vehicle |
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卷期 | 38:1 |
作者 | Tsai, Bor-jang 、 Zheng, Zhe-chang 、 Ho, Wu-chi |
頁次 | 011-019 |
關鍵字 | Micro aerial vehicle 、 Aerodynamic 、 Flow field analysis 、 EI |
出刊日期 | 200603 |
The objective of this paper is to study the aerodynamic performance of
a micro airplane with 16cm chord length, 20cm wingspan, aspect ratio 1.25,
and 200-250gw weight. The CFD software package was adopted for calculating the 3-D aerodynamic properties and simulating the flow-field of a micro airplane’s Clark Y-type wing. This was in order to understand the problems encountered in the low aspect ratio and low Reynolds-number
conditions. During this study counter-circulation phenomena; flow will
have separation and reattachment to form so called “bubble” phenomena
would occur when the angle of attack reach ±10o . In the 3-D cases, the lift coefficient with a vertical tail’s slope will be slightly greater than that without a vertical rudder. The trend of the lift coefficient observed in the water-tunnel experiment matched that of the numerically calculated results.Also in the flow-field visualization, the dye will separate from the airfoil surface at two-thirds of the chord length and counter-circulation phenomena will occur. After the fixed wing design and aerodynamic analysis, a CAD/CAE/CAM module window platform is established as well.