Grid-or-Lattice Aero Structures
- Holey kite How holey art thou? Shape of holes?
- Porous aero structure
- Grid fins
- Lattice kite system
- The material part of the grid/lattice has shape. Shape might
be thread or rigid aerodynamic shape.
- The open mesh holes have shape and size.
- Metamaterial
- Various high-cell-count box kites
- Multi-cellular wings in kite systems
- Shape of pores
- Soft
- Rigid
- Soft but with rigid shaped holes
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_(device)
- Holey drogues
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/84685967@N00/3922958158/
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/137430226109098164/
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/33917803414023363/
- The Parallelogram Multi-Cellular Kite - US 1223163
- Expansible Box Kites of Eiji Ohashi
- GridFinsEyeToAWES images galore
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Grid-Fins and Lattice-Wing Cases
Grid-Fins are related to other Lattice-Wing cases like Vented-Wings Cellular-Kites and Brid-Flock Formations. Grid-Fins and other Lattice-Wings are a general design option when single wings are disadvantaged by specific scaling law factors; when unit-area, unit-actuation-force, and/or unit-square-cube-mass must be limited. The trade-offs are generally decreased L/D, increased unit-count/part-count/build-complexity, and less total stall-drag (when such drag is wanted). Grid-Fins share general Lattice-Wing analytic properties of recursive self-similar, fractal dimensions. As a rigid-wing class, they do not scale greatly as kites, but present a close similarity-class to specific AWES designs like Joby and X-wind have explored, and somewhat inform aspects of megascale soft-lattices.
