• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.835-840
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• 2008

We investigate the aerodynamic performance of the dragonfly wing which has the cross-sectional corrugation by using the static 2-dimensional unsteady simulation. Computational condition is at Re=150, 1400 and 10,000 with the angles of attack from 0 to 40 degrees. As computational results, the increment of the lift coefficient by corrugation is nearly constant over the critical angle of attack. Also, upper side corrugation of the wing have very little influence on increase of the lift coefficient.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.55-62
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• 2006

This paper presents experimental evaluation of an insect-mimicking flapping-wing device actuated by a unimorph piezoceramic actuator. Length of each rod and hinge point in the linkage/amplification system are carefully chosen such that the resulting wing motion can mimic clapping of wings in a real insect at the end of upstroke. In addition to this, a pair of corrugated wings are fabricated mimicking zig-zag cross section of a real insect wing. Thanks to the two additional implementation, the improved flapping wing device can generate a larger lift force than the previous model even though area of the new wing is about 50% less than that of the previous wing. In this work, effects of the wing clapping, the wing corrugation, and the input wave form on the lift force generation have been also experimentally investigated. Finally, the vortex generated by the flapping device has been captured by a high speed camera, showing that vortices are produced during up- and down-strokes.