Numerical Simulation of a Flexible X-Wing Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Numerical Investigation on the Propulsive Performance of Biplane Counter-flapping Wings

A numerical investigation is performed to address the flexing effect on the propulsion performance of flapping wing particularly on the counter-flapping wings of the biplane configuration. A Reynolds number of 10,000 is considered in the present study which corresponds to the flight regime of most existing flapping wing micro air vehicles. The...

Non-intrusive Reliability Analysis of Multi-layered Slopes in Spatially Variable Soils

Stochastic finite element method and random finite element method can provide rigorous tools for slope reliability analysis incorporating spatial variability of soil properties. However, both of them are difficult to be applied into practice due to the modification of finite-element codes and the low efficiency, respectively. To address these...

Estimating the impact of single and multiple freezes on video quality

This paper studies the impact of freezing of video on quality as experienced by users. Two types of freezes are investigated. First a freeze where the image pauses, so no frames were lost (frame halt). In the second type of freeze, the image freezes and skips that part of the video (frame drop). Measuring Mean Opinion Score (MOS) was done by...