Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

The paper presents an overview of the various analyses of flight dynamics, stability, and
control of flap** wing micro-air vehicles available in the literature. The potential benefits of …

HYPERSONIC flight began in February 1949 when a WAC Corporal rocket was ignited from
a US-captured V-2 rocket [1]. In the six decades since this milestone, there have been …

UNSTEADY aerodynamic models are critical components in computational aeroelastic
response and stability analyses. In addition to the time-history effects associated with …

AEROSPACE LETTERS are brief communications (approximately 2000 words) that describe
new and potentially important ideas or results, including critical analytical or experimental …

Two-and three-dimensional low-aspect-ratio (AR 4) hovering airfoil/wing aerodynamics at a
low Reynolds number (Re 100) are numerically investigated. Regarding fluid physics, in …

Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) surrogates are developed to efficiently
compute the aerodynamic heating and unsteady pressure loads for a structurally and …

One of the primary challenges in the development of high-speed systems is accurate and
efficient prediction of the aerodynamic heating, particularly for lightweight systems where …

With the development of the large scale numerical simulation, computational fluid dynamics
and computational solid mechanics couplesimulation becomes the powerful accurate tool in …

Recently, numerous studies have been conducted to clarify the effects of the increases in
pitching and plunging amplitudes of flap** wings on thrust and lift generation. In the …