The objectives of the present research include development of a suitable CFD solver for solving incompressible flow past airfoils suitable for flying wing micro air vehicle (MAV) design. Suitable airfoils would have to be selected for the purpose. This would be followed by development of a structural analysis solver that would structurally model the airfoil and integrate this solver with the flow solver in order to perform the fluid structure ...
Numerical simulations are performed to assess the feasibility of using embedded piezo sensors-actuators within thin wings to make them adaptive and therefore more aerodynamically efficient. If the method is found attractive and validated, could lead to design of practical smart MAV wings, but it also has more general application.
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