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Aerodynamics Design of a High Efficient Solar Powered UAV Propeller
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The First Aircraft Institute,Aviation Industry Corporation of China

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    High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle has the design characteristics of low Re number which makes a great challenge to the propeller aerodynamic design. Based on the main design of a UAV, a solar powered propeller is design in this paper. Multi variables optimization method is used to design the blade element. With proper blade width and pitch distribution, the propeller works efficiently in low Re number. The propeller aerodynamic characteristics are validated in BEM method. The calculation shows the propeller has a high efficiency of over 85% in cruise.

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Li Xinghui, Li Quan, Zhang Jian. Aerodynamics Design of a High Efficient Solar Powered UAV Propeller[J]. Advances in Aeronautical Science and Engineering,2020,11(2):220-225

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  • Received:April 04,2019
  • Revised:June 03,2019
  • Adopted:June 19,2019
  • Online: April 23,2020
  • Published: April 28,2020