Phase II Final Report - NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts

Planetary Exploration Using Biomimetics
An Entomopter for Flight on Mars
Figure 3-38: Pressure Contours for Blowing (Left) and No Blowing (Right)
3.3.1.3 Entomopter Wing CFD Analysis: FLUENT
The first step in the CFD
analysis of the Entomopter
wing was to model the
wing cross-section. The
geometry of the airfoil was
modified from the one
used for the previous
cases, as the results
obtained were far from
those expected. In the new
Figure 3-39: Airfoil with Elliptic Leading Edge
design, an airfoil with an elliptic leading edge and a gradually tapering trailing edge was modeled.
Figure 3-39 shows the airfoil section. GAMBIT, a grid generation package, was used for
modeling the geometry and for grid generation. FLUENT 5 was used for the CFD simulations.
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