Model to Evaluate the Aerodynamic Energy Requirements of Active Materials in Morphing Wings

A computational model is presented which predicts the force, stroke, and energy needed to overcome aerodynamic loads encountered by morphing wings during aircraft maneuvers. This low-cost model generates wing section shapes needed to follow a desired flight path, computes the resulting aerodynamic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pettit, Gregory William
Other Authors: Mechanical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36364
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12212001-161117/