24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-5.2 (St.).R

MULTI OBJECTIVE DESIGN STUDY OF A FLAPPING WING GENERATOR

E. Shimizu
Integrated Fluid Informatics Laboratory, Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Japan

Keywords: Power generation, Flutter, Flapping wing, Multi-objective optimization, Aeroelasticity

“Flapping Wing Power Generator” extracts wind energy from the flutter phenomenon. The system is governed by six non-dimensional design parameters. Present study carried out a multi-objective design for efficiency and power, and revealed the behavior of the system in detail. To obtain a wide variety of Pareto solutions efficiently, Adaptive Neighboring Search (ANS), one of Evolutionary Algorithms, has been extended to handle multiple objectives in the present study.

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