Bird-like flap**-wing vehicles with a high aspect ratio have the potential to fulfill missions
given to micro air vehicles, such as high-altitude reconnaissance, surveillance, rescue, and …

This letter proposes a novel bio-inspired wing design to improve some characteristics of
Flap** Wing Unmanned Vehicles (FWUV) related to their potential applications such as …

Reliable aerodynamic and aeroelastic simulations of advanced aeronautical/mechanical
systems require us to predict flow-induced forces as accurately as possible. Nowadays …

This paper presents the extension of the Kutta–Joukowski theorem to unsteady linear
aerodynamics. Starting from the formulation developed by Theodorsen for the solution of the …

Several bird species have been observed to fly in V-formation, an arrangement which
exploits aerodynamic features to allow the group to conserve energy when migrating over …

Insect flight research is propelled by their unmatched flight capabilities. However, complex
underlying aerodynamic phenomena make computational modeling of insect-type flap** …

The generalized aerodynamic force (GAF) matrix is derived for the Unsteady Vortex Lattice
Method (UVLM) without the assumption of out-of-plane dynamics. As a result, the approach …

This study proposes a design procedure for the multi-objective aeroelastic optimization of a
tow-steered composite wing structure that operates at transonic speed. The aerodynamic …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1429. vid Considerable growth in
the number of passengers and cargo transported by air is predicted. Besides that, aircraft …

View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-1967. vid Scientists have long
used the unsteady vortex lattice method (UVLM) to simulate flap**-wing flight. However …