Biologically Inspired Wing Leading Edge for Enhanced Wind Turbine and Aircraft Performance

Taylor A. Swanson; Kakkattukuzhy M. Isaac

doi:10.2514/6.2011-3533

Biologically Inspired Wing Leading Edge for Enhanced Wind Turbine and Aircraft Performance

Taylor A. Swanson
, Kakkattukuzhy M. Isaac

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Computational fluid dynamics simulations of tubercled leading edge wings are analyzed to determine the underlying mechanisms that may lead to potential performance improvements of wind turbines and aircraft. Reasons for performance improvements suggested in previous studies can probably be attributed to the formation of a complex vortex structure on the tubercled wings. A local trailing vortex cancelation mechanism is proposed to explain performance improvements of finite wings

Original language	American English
Journal	Proceedings of the 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference Proceedings (2011, Honolulu, HI)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2011-3533
State	Published - Jun 30 2011

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Biologically Inspired Wing Leading Edge for Enhanced Wind Turbine and Aircraft Performance

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