Toward Simulating a Pitch-Up Maneuver for a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

What is it about?

This paper addresses what computational requirements and methods are needed to simulate a maneuvering small unmanned vehicle at low Reynolds numbers.

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Why is it important?

This paper shows that second-order methods can do an adequate job at predicting larger-scale flow structures. It uses unstructured methods, which are preferable for realistic SUAS geometries.