28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS2012-P2.22

AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A BIRD-LIKE ASSEMBLED WING

J. Kurihara, Y. Inada
Tokai Univ., Japan

Keywords: mav, gap, bird-like assembled wing

The bird-like assembled wing is studied expecting the aerodynamic advantage of bird wing with anti-stall characteristics owing to the gaps between feathers. The wind tunnel experiment of the artificial bird-like assembled wings revealed such anti-stall characteristics indicating the availability of the assembled wings for the flight stability of small UAV.

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