A practical flapping wing micro aerial vehicle should have ability to withstand stochastic deviations of flight velocities. The responses of the time-averaged thrust coefficient and the propulsive efficiency with respect to a stochastic flight velocity deviation under Gauss distribution were numerically investigated using a classic Monte Carlo method. The response surface method was employed to surrogate the high fidelity model to save computational cost. It is observed that both of the time-averaged thrust coefficient and the propulsive efficiency obey a Gauss-like but not the exact Gauss distribution. The effect caused by the velocity deviation on the time-averaged thrust coefficient is larger than the one on the propulsive efficiency.


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    Title :

    Uncertainty Quantification of a Flapping Airfoil with a Stochastic Velocity Deviation Based on a Surrogate Model



    Published in:

    Advanced Materials Research ; 201-203 ; 1209-1212


    Publication date :

    2011-02-21


    Size :

    4 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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