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Thesis etd-03302009-230906


Thesis type
Tesi di laurea specialistica
Author
MAZZOLA, ANDREA
URN
etd-03302009-230906
Thesis title
Computational study of the aerodynamic characteristics of a dragonfly aerofoil
Department
INGEGNERIA
Course of study
INGEGNERIA AEROSPAZIALE
Supervisors
Relatore Prof. Lombardi, Giovanni
Keywords
  • bidimensional
  • C.F.D
  • computational results
  • dragonfly airfoil
  • low Reynolds number
Graduation session start date
21/04/2009
Availability
Partial
Release date
21/04/2049
Summary
The aim of the present work is to validate a non commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code and investigate the aerodynamic characteristics around a corrugated dragonfly airfoil during gliding flight at different Low Reynolds numbers.

For all simulations the numerical results have been compared with the experimental data taken from the literature.
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