27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS2010-P2.16

MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF CONTROL VANE FORCE IN THE WAKE OF A SHROUDED PROPELLER SYSTEM

G. H. Kim, Y. D. Jeong, S. O. Park
KAIST, Korea

Keywords: shrouded propeller system, control vane, tail sitter

For successful design and operation, control force or moment generated by the control vane should be estimated correctly. In this work, we employ two different approximate numerical methods to estimate the control force of the control vane and measurements have also been carried out.

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