Robotic planetary aerial vehicles increase the range of terrain that can be examined,
compared to traditional landers and rovers, and have more near-surface capability than …

The sparse atmosphere on the surface of Mars provides the necessary flight conditions for
Mars unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform low-altitude flights. This work presents a …

The Mars Helicopter (MH) will be flying on the NASA Mars 2020 rover mission scheduled to
launch in July of 2020. Research is being performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) …

Research in pursuit of rotorcraft flight on Mars has been ongoing since the late 1990s at
NASA Ames Research Center. Since then, many other organizations have also begun …

The lift coefficient and Reynolds number are usually the main constraints in the aerodynamic
platform design during the design process. This work presents the airfoil shape equations …

Some unmanned aerial vehicles, micro-air vehicles, and small-scale wind turbines operate
at Reynolds number values less than 5× 10 5 based on chord length. However, there are …

The unsteady vortex evolution of NACA 0012 airfoil is numerically investigated at low angles
of attack ranging from 0 degrees to 10 degrees where the separation is performed from the …

An investigation of the lift components present over low aspect ratio rectangular wings is
presented. Wing aspect ratios ranging from 0.5 to 3 are examined using published …

Micro air vehicles and vertical-takeoff-and-landing drones usually operate at relatively low
values of the Reynolds number (R e= 10 4–10 5). In the present study, three airfoils from …

With reduced size, the flight Reynolds number of the nano rotor decreases, leading to a
sharp drop in the aerodynamic efficiency of the nano rotor. Therefore, improving the …