Variable pitch propeller - blade pitch moment computational analysis
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Podsedkowski, Maciej; Lipian, Michal; Obidowski, Damian
- Source
- 2023 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2023 International Conference on. :118-122 Jun, 2023
- Subject
- Aerospace
Robotics and Control Systems
Transportation
Propellers
Blades
Wind tunnels
Simulation
Rotors
Software
Aircraft
propeller simulation
variable pitch propeller
UAV
experimental tests
wind tunnel
- Language
- ISSN
- 2575-7296
The paper presents the methodology of pitching moment prediction in drone rotors equipped with a variable pitch propeller. The proposed study describes extension of the available software like QPROP to calculate the blade pitching moment. The simulation results are validated with experimental data from the wind tunnel test and shows an example use of the proposed method. The research highlights potential applications where this analysis is crucial and where challenges of variable pitch propeller design might be solved with the proposed method.