Throughout the last decade, there has been an increased demand for intricate flapping-wing drones with different capabilities than larger drones. The design of flapping-wing drones is focused on endurance and stability, ...

Inverse methods are mathematical techniques by which the unknown input of a system is determined from a known or desired output. In this article, a new inverse method for the reverse design of deformable structures is ...

Many research studies have investigated the characteristics of bird flights as a source of bioinspiration for the design of flapping-wing micro air vehicles. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no drone design ...

Inverse methods are powerful design tools that allow engineers to obtain efficient designs at much lower costs than the ones normally involved in experimental and direct computational design. Here we present an inverse ...

Morphing aircraft have the ability to actively adapt and change their shape to achieve different missions efficiently. The development of morphing structures is deeply related with the ability to model precisely different ...

Morphing aircraft have the ability to actively adapt and change their shape to achieve different missions efficiently. The development of morphing structures is deeply related with the ability to model precisely different ...

Many designs for flapping-wing vehicles have been inspired from birds given their outstanding flight capabilities. Birds have been observed to obtain aerodynamic benefits by flying together in V-formation, a unique feature ...

This thesis presents a study of propeller effects on drag of a tractor wing and a wing form optimization proposal of a representative regional turboprop wing. In this study, the propeller is modeled as a disk with infinitesimal ...

Wing rock is an undesirable oscillatory phenomenon that can occur in airfoils with an increase in the angle of attack due to effects such as asymmetric vortex breakdown. This work aims to study the frequency and amplitude ...