Investigating the Dynamical Behaviour of Dipteran Flight-Inspired Flapping Motion Using Immersed Boundary Method-Based FSI Solver

Shah, Chhote Lal; Majumdar, Dipanjan; Sarkar, Saswati

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-8315-5_23

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“…For more details, please refer to Refs. ( 9 , 28 , 29 ). Description of the computational domain, boundary conditions, grid size, and time-step size have been discussed in Section 1 of the supplementary material .…”

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Passive dynamics regulates aperiodic transitions in flapping wing systems

2023

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Natural and artificial flapping-wing flyers generally do not exhibit chaos or aperiodic dynamic modes, though several experimental and numerical studies with canonical models of flapping foils have reported inevitable chaotic transition at high ranges of dynamic plunge velocity (κh). Here we considered the idealized case of a pitching-plunging flapping foil and numerically investigated the effects of passive pitching dynamics on the fluid forces and dynamical states, and compared it with a fully actuated wing. We found that in comparison to fully actuated foils, aperiodic transition can be avoided even for high κh when passive oscillations are allowed. Passive pitching modulated the relative foil orientation with respect to the incoming free stream to maintain a lower effective angle-of-attack throughout the stroke and reduced the leading-edge-vortex (LEV) strength. Absence of aperiodic triggers such as flow separation and strong LEVs keep the wake periodic and chaotic transition is averted. In the presence of fluctuating inflow conditions, passive pitching attenuated the fluid loads experienced by the airfoil thus improving the wing's gust mitigating potential. These findings highlight the favourable properties of passive dynamics in regularizing aerodynamic loads on flapping wing systems and presents viable solutions for artificial flying platforms.

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Section: Methodology and Numerical Detailsmentioning

confidence: 99%