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| Aerodynamic Performance of a Corrugated Dragonfly Airfoil Compared with Smooth Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers | |
Tama M; Wang ZJ; Rajagopalan G; Hu H; He GW(何国威)
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| Source Publication | AIAA-2007-483 |
| 2007 | |
| Conference Name | 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit |
| Conference Date | 2007-1-8~2007-1-11 |
| Conference Place | Reno, Nevada |
| Abstract | An experimental study was conducted to investigate the flow behavior around a corrugated dragonfly airfoil compared with a traditional, streamlined airfoil and a flat plate. The experimental study was conducted at the chord Reynolds number of ReC =34,000, i.e., the regime where Micro-Air-Vehicles (MAV) usually operate, to explore the potential applications of such bio-inspired airfoils for MAV designs. The measurement results demonstrated clearly that the corrugated dragonfly airfoil has much better performance over the streamlined airfoil and the flat plate in preventing large-scale flow separation and airfoil stall at the test low Reynolds number level. The detailed PIV measurements near the noses of the airfoils elucidated underlying physics about why the corrugated dragonfly airfoil could suppress flow separation and airfoil stall at low Reynolds numbers: Instead of having laminar separation, the protruding corners of the corrugated dragonfly airfoil were found to be acting as “turbulators” to generate unsteady vortices to promote the transition of the boundary layer from laminar to turbulent rapidly. The unsteady vortex structures trapped in the valleys of the corrugated cross section could pump high-speed fluid from outside to near wall regions to provide sufficient energy for the boundary layer to overcome the adverse pressure gradient, thus, discourage flow separations and airfoil stall. |
| Indexed By | EI |
| Language | 英语 |
| Document Type | 会议论文 |
| Identifier | http://dspace.imech.ac.cn/handle/311007/44610 |
| Collection | 力学所知识产出(1956-2008) |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tama M,Wang ZJ,Rajagopalan G,et al. Aerodynamic Performance of a Corrugated Dragonfly Airfoil Compared with Smooth Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers[C]AIAA-2007-483,2007. |
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