The Effects of Split Drag Flaps on Directional Motion of UiTM’s BWB UAV Baseline-II E-4: Investigation Based on CFD Approach

Abstract:

This paper presents a study about split drag flaps as control surfaces to generate yawing motion of a blended wing body aircraft. These flaps are attached on UiTM’s Blended Wing Body (BWB) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Baseline-II E-4. Deflection of split drag flaps on one side of the wing will produce asymmetric drag force and, as consequences, yawing moment will be produced. The yawing moment produced will rotate the nose of the BWB toward the wing with deflected split drag flaps. The study has been carried out using Computational Fluid Dynamics to obtain aerodynamics data with respect to various sideslip angles (ß). The simulation is running at 0.1 Mach number or about 35 m/s. Results in terms of dimensionless coefficient such as drag coefficient (C_D), side force coefficient (C_S) and yawing moment coefficient (C_n) are used to observe the effects of split drag Subscript text flaps on the yawing moment. All the results obtained shows linear trends for all curves with respect to sideslip angles (ß).

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 584-588
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.584
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Firdaus Mohamad, Wisnoe Wirachman, Wahyu Kuntjoro, Rizal E M Nasir
• Keywords: Aerodynamic, Blended Wing Body, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Split Drag Flaps

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