MORPHING WING REAL TIME OPTIMIZATION IN WIND TUNNEL TESTS

Andrei V. Popov, Lucian T. Grigorie, Ruxandra Botez, Mahmood Mamou, Youssef Mébarki

2010

Abstract

In this paper, wind tunnel results of a real time optimization of a morphing wing in wind tunnel for delaying the transition towards the trailing edge are presented. A morphing rectangular finite aspect ratio wing, having a wind tunnel experimental airfoil reference cross-section, was considered with its upper surface made of a flexible composite material and instrumented with Kulite pressure sensors, and two smart memory alloys actuators. Several wind tunnel tests runs for various Mach numbers, angles of attack and Reynolds numbers were performed in the 6’×9’ wind tunnel at the Institute for Aerospace Research at the National Research Council Canada. Unsteady pressure signals were recorded and used as feed back in real time control while the morphing wing was requested to reproduce various optimized airfoils by changing automatically the two actuators strokes. The paper shows the optimization method implemented into the control software code that allows the morphing wing to adjust its shape to an optimum configuration under the wind tunnel airflow conditions.

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V. Popov A., T. Grigorie L., Botez R., Mamou M. and Mébarki Y. (2010). MORPHING WING REAL TIME OPTIMIZATION IN WIND TUNNEL TESTS . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-00-3, pages 114-124. DOI: 10.5220/0002885701140124


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@conference{icinco10,
author={Andrei V. Popov and Lucian T. Grigorie and Ruxandra Botez and Mahmood Mamou and Youssef Mébarki},
title={MORPHING WING REAL TIME OPTIMIZATION IN WIND TUNNEL TESTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2010},
pages={114-124},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002885701140124},
isbn={978-989-8425-00-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - MORPHING WING REAL TIME OPTIMIZATION IN WIND TUNNEL TESTS
SN - 978-989-8425-00-3
AU - V. Popov A.
AU - T. Grigorie L.
AU - Botez R.
AU - Mamou M.
AU - Mébarki Y.
PY - 2010
SP - 114
EP - 124
DO - 10.5220/0002885701140124