A Review on Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings
Abstract The recent interest in flapping wing air vehicle is motivated by the notion that flapping wing may offer some unique aerodynamic advantages over a fixed wing solution. In the future, this technology may be integrated into new plane designs and even retrofitted into existing planes. This is very exciting for the future of flight technology, but more tests are needed before we start seeing these wings on commercial aircrafts. In this paper we have reviewed the aerodynamics modeling of flapping wing such as kinematics of wing, Navierstokes equation. Also the mathematical formulation of normal forces, chord wise forces, total forces, lift and thrust has been reviewed. In the last it has been shown that the flexible wing is much more beneficial than rigid wing.