
Fanwing Aircraft- Scope as an Agricultural Aircraft
Author(s) -
Vaibhav Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2021.37436
Subject(s) - fixed wing , payload (computing) , lift (data mining) , scope (computer science) , rotor (electric) , aeronautics , automotive engineering , drone , wing , aerospace engineering , engineering , computer science , environmental science , marine engineering , mechanical engineering , computer network , genetics , network packet , biology , data mining , programming language
The objective of this paper is to apply the concept of fan wing to agricultural aircrafts which are conventionally fixed wings aircrafts or multi-rotor drones. Fan wing is capable of producing good amount of lift at a sufficiently low speed without stalling, thus is apt for agricultural processes of irrigation, spraying pesticides, etc. Fan wing has a special ability that it doesn’t stalls (for the practical range of AOA), making this spraying method reliable. A fanwing aircraft is modelled using CATIA V5 and the flow visualizations for the same are performed on the ANSYS. This aircraft is then compared with three different existing agricultural aircrafts on different parameters, namely payload capacity, work efficiency and ease of operation. The comparison shows that such fanwing vehicle is a good substitute over the conventional fixed wings and multi-rotor drones.