25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-2.2.3


NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FLAPPING WING

H. Matsutani
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Keywords: flapping wing, immersed boundary method, MAV

In this study, to numerically analyze the flow around a flapping wing to generate the thrust and the lift of MAVs like birds and insects, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved with the Immersed Boundary Method. The results are compared with those of the Vortex Lattice Method.


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