Insect flight comes with lot of intricacies that cannot be explained by conventional aerodynamics. Insects rely on a peculiar high frequency wing flapping mechanism to produce the aero-dynamic forces required for sustainable flight. Broad study of this mechanism for producing forces is imperative to attain a reasonably accurate representation of these forces. In this research, sensitivity analysis is performed on the factors governing the aerodynamic force production due to flapping motion of a two-dimensional wing section of a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV). Published results obtained on a wing section of an MAV model by the authors in their previous work are used for preliminary review. The flapping path parameters are nondimensionalized and the moving mesh problem is solved in a numerical flow solver. A thorough sensitivity analysis is done to realize the effects of the flapping wing Reynolds number, Strouhal number, and the absolute angle of attack on the force generation.
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