CFD analysis of ducted-fan UAV based on Magnus effect

Author

Zhao, Jie ; Hou, Qingming ; Jin, Hongzhe ; Zhu, Yanhe ; Li, Ge

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Robotic & Syst., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2012

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

1722

Lastpage

1726

Abstract

Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle(UAV) has been developed quickly for decades and a new kind of VTOL(Vertical Take-Off and Landing)UAV which is called Ducted-Fan Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle attracts more and more attention. This paper presents a new structure of the ducted-fan UAV. In this vehicle, the actuator system consists of four rotary cylinders which are symmetrically installed at bottom of inside duct. The force used for attitude stabilization is generated by the interaction between the surface of cylinder and the downwash, which is known as Magnus effect. In this paper, the aerodynamic characteristics of propeller-wing interaction for the ducted fan UAV were simulated numerically based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) by means of sliding mesh technology.

Keywords

actuators; autonomous aerial vehicles; computational fluid dynamics; ducts; fans; mesh generation; propellers; remotely operated vehicles; vehicle dynamics; CFD analysis; Magnus effect; VTOL UAV; actuator system; aerodynamic characteristics; attitude stabilization; computational fluid dynamics; ducted fan UAV; numerical simulation; propeller-wing interaction; rotary cylinders; sliding mesh technology; uninhabited aerial vehicles; vertical-take-off-and-landing UAV; Aerodynamics; Blades; Computational fluid dynamics; Ducts; Force; Torque; Vehicles; CFD; Ducted-fan UAV; Magnus effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1275-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2012.6284396

Filename

6284396