A VORTEX LATTICE PROGRAM FOR STEADY （涡旋晶格计划稳定）.pdf

rd 2009 Brazilian Symposium on Aerospace Eng. Applications 3 CTA-DLR Workshop on Data Analysis Flight Control Copyright © 2009 by AAB September 14-16, 2009, S. J. Campos, SP, Brazil A VORTEX LATTICE PROGRAM FOR STEADY STATE AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF FLAPPED AND TWISTED UAV WING PLANFORMS Maurício Vicente Donadon, donadon@ita.br Sérgio Frascino Muller de Almeida, frascino@ita.br Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica-ITA CTA-ITA-IEM, Praça Mal. Eduardo Gomes, 50, 12228-900, São José dos Campos-SP, Brazil Lorenzo Iannucci, lo.iannucci@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London, Dept. of Aeronautics, London-UK Abstract. This paper presents a MATLAB program for estimating the subsonic aero-dynamic characteristics of flapped and twisted wing planforms using the Vortex Lattice Method (VLM). The aerodynamic characteristics of interest are lift, rolling moment, pitching moments about the twisting and flapped line, pressure distribution and aerodynamic energy. The program was developed to help designers to carry out virtual tests in order to decide the wing dimensions for different morphing wing configurations under steady subsonic flow. Numerical results for flat, flapped and twisted wing configurations are presented and discussed. Keywords : Aerodynamics, Vortex Lattice Method, UAV 1. INTRODUCTION The desire for multi-mission capability in military and civil air vehicle systems has created a need for technologies that allow for drastic wing shape changes during flight. Since most current aircraft are fixed-geometry, they represent a design compromise between conflicting performance requirements in mission segments such as highspeed cruise, low-speed loiter, and low turn radius maneuver. If a hybr