Advances in the fields of electronics, batteries, and electric motors have enabled broad adoption of small-scale aircraft for various terrestrial applications. Numerous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) and small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), both civil and military, are in use today. Operation at their design flight condition often requires rotors, propellers, or wings to perform at Reynolds numbers significantly below 500,000 [1]. Airfoil performance at low Reynolds numbers is generally characterized by low aerodynamic performance (i.e. the attainable lift-to-drag ratio) compared to performance of airfoils at higher Reynolds numbers. The critical chord-based Reynolds number for conventional airfoils lies around Rec = 100,000 to Rec = 500,000 [2]. Below this critical Reynolds number, laminar separation of the boundary layer is usually the cause for poor performance. Researchers have found that below the critical Reynolds number, flat and cambered plates can outperform smooth airfoils. Circular-arc cambered plates especially have remarkable performance advantages compared to conventional airfoil shapes [3].


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    Titel :

    Preliminary Airfoil Design for Low Reynolds Numbers


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    02.05.2022


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


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    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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