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Wind Tunnel renovation, flow verification and flapping wing analysis.

Approved for public release, distribution unlimited / The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV) wind tunnel was refurbished in this study. This wind tunnel has a 61 by 38 centimeter test section with a contraction ratio of 6.75, and testing speeds up to 9 meters per second (m/s). The objectives of this work were to create a high quality, customized facility for further MAV study, and to fully characterize the wake of the MAV at a plane downstream of the model. Extensive repairs were made to the wind tunnel intake, test section, and fan. The flow field produced in the tunnel was analyzed with hot wire anemometry. The turbulence intensity ranged from .7% to .5% for freestream velocities of 2 m/s to 5 m/s. The velocity variation across the test section ranged from .251% to .125%. A model of the NPS MAV was placed in the test section and the wake was studied with and without the main wing, and in vertical and horizontal orientations. The wake was characterized with hot wire anemometry and flow visualization techniques at various flapping frequencies and freestream velocities. / US Navy (USN) author.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/2837
Date06 1900
CreatorsHickle, Curtis
ContributorsJones, Kevin, Hobson, Garth, Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
PublisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Source SetsNaval Postgraduate School
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatxii, 81 p. : col. ill. ;, application/pdf
RightsApproved for public release, distribution unlimited, This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, may not be copyrighted.

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