Simulation of Aerodynamics for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with the SolidWorks Platform

This paper presents the application of Solidworks Flow Simulation software to support aerodynamic simulation for unmanned aerial vehicles, helping to improve flight conditions during operation under the influence of external aircraft forces. In recent years, many countries have focused on and strongly developed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) research and development, especially for agriculture, hydrometeorology, and the military, to improve and enhance the quality of life. Therefore, it is essential to research and calculate to stabilize the ability to fly in the actual conditions of unmanned aerial vehicles. Through the survey, an unmanned aerial vehicle’s control includes many factors related to the fields such as mechanics, electricity, electronics, and automation. In building the size parameters of the dynamic model for pesticide spraying drones for agriculture, the authors built the initial size parameters using SolidWorks software to perform the simulation. Aerodynamics acts on the aircraft’s rudder to optimize the size parameters suitable for flight conditions when operating by experimenting with the wing flight model by adjusting the parameters and determining the appropriate size parameters for flight conditions with boundary conditions in the flight area for pesticide spraying. It is necessary to have a set of aerodynamic coefficients to determine the aerodynamic forces acting on the aircraft’s wing during flight. After setting the basic size parameters, to ensure flight conditions, the set of aerodynamic coefficients is determined by the experimental method and adjusted in actual situations with different boundary conditions. For adjusting the wing size parameters of the flat-wing aircraft, the authors use aerodynamic simulation software with SolidWorks flow simulation modules with the boundary conditions set. Solidwork Flow Simulation using computational fluid dynamics analysis allows us to simulate fluid flow and heat transfer quickly and efficiently through obstruction surfaces. With such requirements, Solidwork software with the Flow Simulation module can effectively support analysis and calculation for designing and manufacturing wing aircraft for agriculture.