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Data-Driven Cfd Scaling Of Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles For Hover, Jeremy A. Pohly, Chang-Kwon Kang, Brian D. Landrum, James E. Bluman, Hikaru Aono Mar 2021

Data-Driven Cfd Scaling Of Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles For Hover, Jeremy A. Pohly, Chang-Kwon Kang, Brian D. Landrum, James E. Bluman, Hikaru Aono

PRC-Affiliated Research

One way to improve our model of Mars is through aerial sampling and surveillance, which could provide information to augment the observations made by ground-based exploration and satellite imagery. Flight in the challenging ultra-low-density Martian environment can be achieved with properly scaled bioinspired flapping wing vehicle configurations that utilize the same high lift producing mechanisms that are employed by insects on Earth. Through dynamic scaling of wings and kinematics, we investigate the ability to generate solutions for a broad range of flapping wing flight vehicles with masses ranging from insects O(10−3) kg to the Mars helicopter Ingenuity O(100) kg. A …


Data-Driven Cfd Scaling Of Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles For Hover, Jeremy A. Pohly, Chang-Kwon Kang, Brian D. Landrum, James E. Bluman, Hikaru Aono Mar 2021

Data-Driven Cfd Scaling Of Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles For Hover, Jeremy A. Pohly, Chang-Kwon Kang, Brian D. Landrum, James E. Bluman, Hikaru Aono

PRC-Affiliated Research

One way to improve our model of Mars is through aerial sampling and surveillance, which could provide information to augment the observations made by ground-based exploration and satellite imagery. Flight in the challenging ultra-low-density Martian environment can be achieved with properly scaled bioinspired flapping wing vehicle configurations that utilize the same high lift producing mechanisms that are employed by insects on Earth. Through dynamic scaling of wings and kinematics, we investigate the ability to generate solutions for a broad range of flapping wing flight vehicles with masses ranging from insects O(10−3) kg to the Mars helicopter Ingenuity O(100) kg. A …