The propeller design of a grazing drone based on MATLAB and XFOIL to select the optimal foil cross-section airfoil
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https://doi.org/10.63808/aepm.v2i1.277Keywords:
Highland environment; Betz theory; High efficiency; Bézier fitting; MATLAB combined with XFOILAbstract
In order to improve the flight efficiency of the grazing drone, the plateau grazing drone's propeller was designed using the Betz theory, and the airfoil selection method was improved in the design iteration process. The results show that the efficiency of the propeller designed by a single airfoil is 68.9%. The propeller's efficiency by selecting the optimal airfoil is 72.8%, which is improved by about 4%, and the design results are in good agreement with the CFD simulation results.
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