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Design, manufacturing, and testing of a new concept for a morphing leading edge using a subsonic blow down wind tunnel

Communier, David, Le Besnerais, Franck, Botez, Ruxandra Mihaela and Wong, Tony. 2019. « Design, manufacturing, and testing of a new concept for a morphing leading edge using a subsonic blow down wind tunnel ». Biomimetics, vol. 4, nº 4.
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Abstract

This paper presents the design and wind tunnel test results of a wing including a morphing leading edge for a medium unmanned aerial vehicle with a maximum wingspan of 5 m. The design of the morphing leading edge system is part of research on the design of a morphing camber system. The concept presented here has the advantage of being simple to manufacture (wooden construction) and light for the structure of the wing (compliance mechanism). The morphing leading edge prototype demonstrates the possibility of modifying the stall angle of the wing. In addition, the modification of the stall angle is performed without affecting the slope of the lift coefficient. This prototype is designed to validate the functionality of the deformation method applied to the leading edge of the wing. The mechanism can be further optimized in terms of shape and material to obtain a greater deformation of the leading edge, and, thus, to have a higher impact on the increase of the stall angle than the first prototype of the morphing leading edge presented in this paper.

Item Type: Peer reviewed article published in a journal
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Botez, Ruxandra
Wong, Tony
Affiliation: Génie des systèmes, Génie des systèmes
Date Deposited: 17 Dec 2019 20:39
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2020 20:45
URI: https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/19923

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