Effects of aspect ratio on flapping wing aerodynamics in animal flight

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• 作者：Jun-Jiang Fu (1)
  Csaba Hefler (1)
  Hui-He Qiu (1)
  Wei Shyy (1)
  
  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ; The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology ; Clear Water Bay ; Kowloon ; Hong Kong SAR ; China
  
• 关键词：Aspect ratio ; Aerodynamics ; Leading edge vortex ; Flapping wing
• 刊名：Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：December 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：30
• 期：6
• 页码：776-786
• 全文大小：1,055 KB
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
  Mechanics, Fluids and Thermodynamics
  Engineering Fluid Dynamics
  Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering
  Chinese Library of Science
  
• 出版者：The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of
• ISSN：1614-3116

文摘

Morphology as well as kinematics is a critical determinant of performance in flapping flight. To understand the effects of the structural traits on aerodynamics of bio-flyers, three rectangular wings with aspect ratios (AR) of 1, 2, and 4 performing hovering-like sinusoidal kinematics at wingtip based Reynolds number of 5 300 are experimentally investigated. Flow structures on sectional cuts along the wing span are compared. Stronger K-H instability is found on the leading edge vortex of wings with higher aspect ratios. Vortex bursting only appears on the outer spanwise locations of high-aspect-ratio wings. The vortex bursting on high-aspect-ratio wings is perhaps one of the reasons why bio-flyers normally have low-aspect-ratio wings. Quantitative analysis exhibits larger dimensionless circulation of the leading edge vortex (LEV) over higher aspect ratio wings except when vortex bursting happens. The average dimensionless circulation of AR1 and AR2 along the span almost equals the dimensionless circulation at the 50% span. The flow structure and the circulation analysis show that the sinusoidal kinematics suppresses breakdown of the LEV compared with simplified flapping kinematics used in similar studies. The Reynolds number effect results on AR4 show that in the current Re range, the overall flow structure is not sensitive to Reynolds number.