TY - GEN
T1 - Investigation of the Improvement of Airfoil Aerodynamic Performance by Using a Novel Mechanism to Adjust Different Cant Angles
AU - Widjaja, William
AU - Long, Shanshan
AU - Yang, Xiaogang
AU - Adjei, Richard Amankwa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This project is aiming to investigate the effect of variable winglet mechanism to adjust the cant angle towards overall wing aerodynamics performance in unmanned aerial vehicle (U A V). The effect of cant angle and variable winglet mechanism is examined using computational method software ANSYS. The airfoil used is NACA 4415 and 2412 for the main wing and winglet respectively. The wing configuration consists of three different winglet cant angles and six angle of attack (AOA). The wing is tested with k-\omega SST turbulence model along with SIMPLE Algorithm and Transient mode with velocity of M0.29.By implementing variable winglet mechanism, the overall lift-To-drag ratio (L / D) is increased by up to 16.468% with reduction of drag coefficient by up to 14.267%. The addition of the novel mechanism also reduces the acoustic noise profile when compared to standard winglets.
AB - This project is aiming to investigate the effect of variable winglet mechanism to adjust the cant angle towards overall wing aerodynamics performance in unmanned aerial vehicle (U A V). The effect of cant angle and variable winglet mechanism is examined using computational method software ANSYS. The airfoil used is NACA 4415 and 2412 for the main wing and winglet respectively. The wing configuration consists of three different winglet cant angles and six angle of attack (AOA). The wing is tested with k-\omega SST turbulence model along with SIMPLE Algorithm and Transient mode with velocity of M0.29.By implementing variable winglet mechanism, the overall lift-To-drag ratio (L / D) is increased by up to 16.468% with reduction of drag coefficient by up to 14.267%. The addition of the novel mechanism also reduces the acoustic noise profile when compared to standard winglets.
KW - Angle-of-Attack (AoA)
KW - Sound Pressure Level (SPL)
KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
KW - acoustics
KW - adaptive variable winglet
KW - aerodynamics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186744884&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMAE59650.2023.10424625
DO - 10.1109/ICMAE59650.2023.10424625
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85186744884
T3 - 2023 14th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ICMAE 2023
SP - 382
EP - 388
BT - 2023 14th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ICMAE 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 14th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, ICMAE 2023
Y2 - 18 July 2023 through 21 July 2023
ER -