报告人简介：
Dr. Max F. Platzer was a member of Wernher von Braun’s SATURN space launch vehicle development team for six years, Head of the aeromechanics research group at the Lockheed Georgia Research Laboratory for four years, and a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, for thirty four years. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the University of California Davis. Dr. Platzer is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is editor of the international review journal “Progress in Aerospace Sciences”.
报告摘要：
For many years flapping wing aerohydrodynamics has been of interest to scientists studying the mechanics and dynamics of flying and swimming animals. In the past fifteen years it has been recognized that flapping wings can be applied to the construction of micro air vehicles, thus opening a new field of aeronautical engineering. It is less well known that flapping wings can also be used to extract power from wind or water streams.
Prof. Platzer will review his and his associates’ work on flapping wing aerohydro-dynamics. It includes computational and experimental studies elucidating the basic physics of thrust and power generation by means of flapping wings as well as demonstrations of flapping-wing propelled micro air vehicles and flapping –wing hydropower generators. |
