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Conceptual Design Tool to Analyze Electrochemically-Powered Micro Air Vehicles

Conceptual Design Tool to Analyze Electrochemically-Powered Micro Air Vehicles

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Technology & EngineeringPhysics

ISBN10: 1025130006
ISBN13: 9781025130002
Publisher: Hutson Street Press
Published: May 22 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A multi-fidelity conceptual design tool was developed to assess electrochemically-powered micro air vehicles(MAVs). The tool utilizes four areas of contributing analyses (CAs): aerodynamics, propulsion, power management, and power sources to determine the endurance duration of a given mission. The low-fidelity aerodynamic CA consisted of drag polar calculations and the high-level CA used a vortex theory code called Athena Vortex Lattice (AVL). The propulsion CA employed QPROP and a MATLAB code that used experimental propeller data and motor constants to predict propeller-motor combination performance for the low- and high-fidelity tracks, respectively. The power management CA determined the percentage of required power the power sources needed to provide by a user-defined split or an optimization to maximize endurance duration for the two fidelity options. The power source CA used specific energy and specific power calculations for the low-fidelity track and polarization curves and Ragone plots for the high-fidelity track.

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