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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Morphing Wings"”.
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Aeroelasticity of Morphing Wings Using Neural Networks
… The use of adaptive materials in aircraft wings allows for the change of the contour or the configuration of a wing (morphing) in flight. The use of smart materials, to accomplish these deformations, can imply that the stiffness of the wing with a morphing contour changes as the contour …
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Mechanical Properties of Candidate Materials for Morphing Wings
… materials that could be used as a skin for a morphing wing. A morphing wing is defined as a wing that changes shape. Although engineers have been designing different morphing wing configurations, there has been limited research investigating materials that could be used as a skin for a …
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Model to Evaluate the Aerodynamic Energy Requirements of Active Materials in Morphing Wings
… 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 forces using a unique combination of conformal mapping and the vortex panel …
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Evaluating the Aerodynamic Performance of MFC-Actuated Morphing Wings to Control a Small UAV
… certain performance characteristics of a morphing<br />wing system that uses Macro Fiber Composites (MFC) to create camber change. This<br />thesis can be broken into two major sections. The first half compares a few current MFC<br />airfoil designs to each other and to a conventional …
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Nature's engineering : a blueprint for efficient aircraft design
… researched to improve aircraft efficiency are morphing wings and perching. Morphing wings allow airplanes to change the shape of their wings to suit the needs of their mission. Perching is a landing maneuver that uses the nonlinear dynamics of stall to create the drag forces necessary to …
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Shape Optimization of Microfiber Composite Energy Harvesters
… of energy harvester for applications such as morphing wings, smart shoe, MEMS devices, etc.</p>
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Investigation of novel electroactive morphing concepts for aerodynamic performance increase of an A320 wing through High-Fidelity numerical simulation
… aims at investigating bio-inspired concepts of morphing wings for greener aviation through aerodynamic performance increase. The work was conducted under the European project BEALIVE “Bioinspired Electroactive multiscale Aeronautical LIVE skin”. This research was carried out in collaboration …
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Design and Dynamic Analysis of a Variable-Sweep, Variable-Span Morphing UAV
<p>Morphing wings have the potential to optimize UAV performance for a variety of flight conditions and maneuvers. The ability to vary both the wing sweep and span can enable maximum performance for a diverse range of flight regimes. For example, low-speed missions can be optimized using a wing …