[HTML][HTML] A review on fluid dynamics of flapping foils

X Wu, X Zhang, X Tian, X Li, W Lu - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The fluid dynamics of flapping foils are reviewed in this article. A very wide range of
researches are conducted for the two-dimensional flapping foil which has a relatively simple …

Recent progress in flapping wing aerodynamics and aeroelasticity

W Shyy, H Aono, SK Chimakurthi, P Trizila… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2010 - Elsevier
Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

Flapping wing aerodynamics: progress and challenges

MF Platzer, KD Jones, J Young, JCS Lai - AIAA journal, 2008 - arc.aiaa.org
BIRDS, insects, fish, and cetaceans, such as whales and dolphins, have evolved and used
flapping-wing systems for thrust and lift production for millions of years. An understanding of …

Unsteady force generation and vortex dynamics of pitching and plunging aerofoils

YS Baik, LP Bernal, K Granlund, MV Ol - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - cambridge.org
Experimental studies of the flow topology, leading-edge vortex dynamics and unsteady force
produced by pitching and plunging flat-plate aerofoils in forward flight at Reynolds numbers …

On the aerodynamic forces on heaving and pitching airfoils at low Reynolds number

M Moriche, O Flores, M García-Villalba - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
The influence that the kinematics of pitching and heaving 2D airfoils has on the aerodynamic
forces is investigated using direct numerical simulations and a force decomposition …

Aerodynamics of two-dimensional flapping wings in tandem configuration

KB Lua, H Lu, XH Zhang, TT Lim, KS Yeo - Physics of Fluids, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports a fundamental investigation on the aerodynamics of two-dimensional
flapping wings in tandem configuration in forward flight. Of particular interest are the effects …

Investigating chaotic wake dynamics past a flapping airfoil and the role of vortex interactions behind the chaotic transition

C Bose, S Sarkar - Physics of fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The present study investigates the complex vortex interactions in two-dimensional flow-field
behind a symmetric NACA0012 airfoil undergoing a prescribed periodic pitching-plunging …

Effect of wing–wake interaction on aerodynamic force generation on a 2D flapping wing

KB Lua, TT Lim, KS Yeo - Experiments in Fluids, 2011 - Springer
This paper is motivated by the works of Dickinson et al.(Science 284: 1954–1960, 1999) and
Sun and Tang (J Exp Biol 205: 55–70, 2002) which provided two different perspectives on …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical and experimental investigation of natural flow-induced vibrations of flexible hydrofoils

EJ Chae, DT Akcabay, A Lelong, JA Astolfi… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The objective of this work is to present combined numerical and experimental studies of
natural flow-induced vibrations of flexible hydrofoils. The focus is on identifying the …

Vortex flow structures and interactions for the optimum thrust efficiency of a heaving airfoil at different mean angles of attack

A Martín-Alcántara, R Fernandez-Feria… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The thrust efficiency of a two-dimensional heaving airfoil is studied computationally for a low
Reynolds number using a vortex force decomposition. The auxiliary potentials that separate …