Discussion on improving Magnus effect of cylinder based on CFD

Author

Jie Zhao ; Qingming Hou ; Hongzhe Jin ; Jihong Yan ; Yanhe Zhu ; Ge Li

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Robotic & Syst., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

539

Lastpage

543

Abstract

The Magnus effect is used in many fields. In this paper, the Magnus force generated by the cylinder is used to stabilize the ducted fan UAV. The cylinder´s Magnus effect is analyzed by on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method and a improved shape of the cylinder is presented. The aerodynamic characteristics of the cylinder´s Magnus effect is analyzed by CFD software, FLUENT. The multi-objective optimization of the improved shape of the cylinder is conducted. In the optimization the response surface methodology(RSM) and Genetic Algorithm(GA) are adopted.

Keywords

aerodynamics; autonomous aerial vehicles; computational fluid dynamics; drag; ducts; fans; genetic algorithms; pipe flow; response surface methodology; CFD software; FLUENT; Magnus force; aerodynamic characteristics; computational fluid dynamics; cylinder Magnus effect; cylinder shape; drag force; ducted fan UAV; genetic algorithm; optimization; response surface methodology; Computational fluid dynamics; Drag; Force; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Response surface methodology; Shape; CFD; Cylinder; Magnus effect;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5557-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2013.6617974

Filename

6617974