Research Article
Aerodynamic and Vibration Characteristics of the Micro-Octocopter at Low Reynolds Number
Table 1
Performance comparison between the optimized airfoil and initial airfoil under various Reynolds numbers.
| Rate | NACA0012 | New airfoil | Rate change of C1 (%) | Rate change of C4 (%) | Cl1 | Cd1 | Cl2 | Cd2 |
| Re = 100,000 | 0.84082 | 0.0304 | 1.01788 | 0.02284 | 21.06 | −24.87 | Re = 200,000 | 0.85228 | 0.0222 | 1.02682 | 0.01734 | 20.48 | −21.89 | Re = 300,000 | 0.85994 | 0.01826 | 1.03698 | 0.01538 | 20.59 | −15.77 |
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