(in a dedicated task) to design and test a morphing concept based on trailing edge camber variation for a regional aircraft wing. The chapter is organized into five main sections. First, the handling of the CFD mesh deformation taking account of morphing shape changes will be presented. An ...
shape for amphibious locomotion. We also create a library of embedded morphing modules to demonstrate the versatile programmable shapes (e.g., torsion, 3D bending, surface morphing, etc.). Our embedded morphing scheme offers a promising avenue for robots to reconfigure their morphology in an embedd...
Combining this approach with multibody principles assures that such a mesh can also describe the motions of a physical structure. This would guarantee that the integrity of the structure is preserved and that the relations between the different sections of the structure are maintained during the ...
Flexible smart sensing skin is a key enabling technology for the future “Fly-by-Feel” control of morphing aircraft. It represents the next-generation skin of aircraft that can exhibit a more powerful sensing function than a conventional one and could be mounted on arbitrary curvilinear surfaces,...
[112]. In a two-step synthesis, functionalised nanogels of less than 100 nm in diameter are created, which are then subsequently joined together. This approach generates heterogeneous mesh-like structures relatively easy, suggesting biomimetic hierarchical nanostructures need not require extensive ...
Map to Geometryprovides quick ways of taking an existing mesh and conform it to a new geometry. Domains and handles can be used to provide better control on the morphing process. The geometry can be a line, node list, plane, surfaces, or elements using edge domains and handles to guide ...
Recent realizations of time-dependent morphing are limited to the actuation of few, discrete hinges and cannot form doubly curved surfaces. Here, we demonstrate a method for encoding temporal shape evolution in architected shells that assume complex shapes and doubly curved geometries. The shells are...
The geometry is discretized arranging two-dimensionalS4Relements with hourglass control and 5 integration points through the thickness in a structured mesh. A structured mesh can be built in this case because the arm is modeled in an initial planar state, which greatly improves mesh convergence. A...
In this study, we employ an adjoint-based shape optimization method in conjunction with CFD for the optimal and rapid design of RVGs in a turbulent flow regime. We define a bi-objective Adjoint-Based Optimization problem to compute the sensitivity maps by: (1) locally morphing the mesh and ...
The first-layer grid near the wall grids is 3 × 10−6 m and the wall mesh has the y+ < 1 to resolve the boundary layer problem. Figure 2. Computational grid near the airfoil. Table 2 shows the aerodynamic coefficient of different grids. The difference between the aerodynamic ...