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Aerodynamic Analysis of Tilt-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Computational Fluid Dynamics  

Kim Cheol-Wan (Aerodynamics Department, Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Chung Jin-Deog (Aerodynamics Department, Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Publication Information
Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology / v.20, no.4, 2006 , pp. 561-568 More about this Journal
Abstract
CFD simulation for one of tilt-rotor UAV configurations, TR-E2S1, was performed to investigate its aerodynamic characteristics. Control surfaces such as elevator and rudder were deflected and wing incidence angle was changed. Also aerodynamic stabilities were analyzed with the variation of pitch and yaw angles. The comparison of CFD with wind tunnel test results reveals the same trends in the aerodynamic characteristics and stabilities. However 12% scale wind tunnel test model is too small for accurate data collection and should build a high fidelity model for quantitative data comparison.
Keywords
Tilt-rotor; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); CFD; Wind Tunnel Test; Drag Prediction;
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