Contact Yingjun Pan
- Email: Y.Pan@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Structures
- Aircraft Design
Background
Yingjun earned a B.S. in Aircraft Design from Harbin Engineering University, China in 2017, followed by an MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design from Cranfield University, UK in 2019. She worked as an aerodynamic engineer at Guanyi Aviation, China, and at Guangdong Academy of Sciences, China, before conducting her PhD study in Aerospace at Cranfield University. Her doctoral research was dedicated to advancing bio-inspired flapping wing micro aerial vehicles, specifically focusing on developing an innovative flapping wing rotor. Her current work significantly improves the aerodynamic efficiency and flight performance of flapping wing rotors through unsteady aerodynamic analysis, mechanism design, experimental testing, computational fluid dynamics simulations, fluid-structure interaction studies, and multi-body dynamic simulations.
She now works as a research fellow in aerostructures at Cranfield University, specialising in aeroelasticity research in the ONEheart (Out of Cycle NExt generation highly efficient air transport) project funded by UK Research and Innovation and in collaboration with Airbus.
Current activities
Her current work involves:
Developing dragonfly-inspired flapping wing rotors for VTOL and transitional flight modes;
Enhancing aircraft design through multi-fidelity structural and aeroelastic analysis toolsets, focusing on precision, speed and adaptability in aerospace engineering;
Conducting aeroelastic optimisation of large aircraft with passive twist wingtips.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Pan Y, Guo S, Whidborne JF & Huang X. (2024). Aerodynamic performance of a flyable flapping wing rotor with dragonfly-like flexible wings. Aerospace Science and Technology, 148
- Pan Y, Guo S & Huang X. (2024). Research progress on bio-inspired flapping-wing rotor micro aerial vehicle development. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 21(4)
- Pan Y, Su H, Guo S, Chen S & Huang X. (2024). Analysis and testing of a flyable micro flapping-wing rotor with a highly efficient elastic mechanism. Biomimetics, 9(12)
- Chen S, Wang L, He Y, Tong M, Pan Y, .... (2021). Aerodynamic performance of a flyable flapping wing rotor with passive pitching angle variation. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 69(9)