The concept of morphing geometry to control and stabilize the flow has been proposed and applied in several aeronautic and wind turbine applications. We studied the effect of a similar passive system applied on an axial fan blade, analysing potential benefits and disadvantages associated to the passive coupling between fluid and structure dynamics. The present work completes a previous study made at the section level, giving a view also on the three-dimensional effects. We use the numerical computation to simulate the system which defines a complex fluid-structure interaction problem. In order to do that, an in-house finite element solver, already used in the previous study, is applied to solve the coupled dynamics.
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