Recent Progress on Aeroelasticity of High-Performance Morphing UAVs
Binbin Lv, Jun Zha, Kaichun Zeng*, Hongtao Guo, Li Yu and Peng Zhang
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.133, No.1, pp. 1-29, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020572
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Vibration Control and Utilization)
Abstract The high-performance morphing aircraft has become a research focus all over the world. The morphing aircraft,
unlike regular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has more complicated aerodynamic characteristics, making
itmore difficultto conduct its design, model analysis, and experimentation. This paper reviews the recent process
and the current status of aeroelastic issues, numerical simulations, and wind tunnel test of morphing aircrafts.
The evaluation of aerodynamic characteristics, mechanism, and relevant unsteady dynamic aerodynamic modeling
throughout the morphing process are the primary technological bottlenecks formorphing aircrafts. The unstable
aerodynamic forces have a significant impact on the aircraft handling characteristics, control law design, and
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