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<journal-id>International Journal of Aerospace and Lightweight Structures</journal-id>
<publication_date>2013</publication_date>
<volume>3</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
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<doi>10.3850/S2010428613000093</doi>
<article-title>Computational Mechanics of a Coupled Flow-Structure Interaction Problem with Applications to Bio-Inspired Micro Air Vehicles</article-title>
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<author>Rohan Banerjee<sup>1</sup> and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer<sup>2</sup></author>

<author-citation>Banerjee, Rohan; Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan</author-citation>

<aff><sup>1</sup>Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, 6560 Braddock Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, USA.</aff>

<email><a href="mailto:rohan.b.banerjee@gmail.com">rohan.b.banerjee@gmail.com</a></email>


<aff><sup>2</sup>Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS: 3F2, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.</aff>

<email><a href="mailto:pseshaiy@gmu.edu">pseshaiy@gmu.edu</a></email>

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<p>Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are small flying vehicles that are designed to fit certain size
and weight constraints. MAVs are important because they have a variety of practical
applications, including surveillance and weather imaging. MAVs fall into two major cat-
egories according to their lift mechanism, either fixed-wing or flapping-wing, and wing
structure, either rigid or flexible. Much research has been devoted to fixed wing, flexible
MAVs consisting of rigid stabilizing battens and a rigid central fuselage coupled with
a flexible membrane. We used finite element software to implement a system of PDEs
that represented the MAV wing. The goal of this study was to computationally verify
qualitative results showing that varying the number of stabilizing battens and the angle
of attack affected the wing deformation. The work will be extended to include rigor-
ous stability estimates, which will provide a better understanding of flexible wing MAV
aerodynamics, and nonlinear membrane models.</p>

<p><italic>Keywords: </italic>Micro air vehicles, Multiphysics, Mechanics, PDE, Finite element method.</p>
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