An analysis of a symmetric flapping model: A symmetry-breaking mechanism and its universality

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Japan

Volumn 50, Issue , 2001, Pages 237-245

  Iima, Makoto ^a   Yanagita, Tatsuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); VORTEX FLOW;

SYMMETRIC FLAPPING MODEL; SYMMETRY BREAKING MECHANISM; UNIVERSALITY;

WINGS;

EID: 0035733945     PISSN: 13480693     EISSN: 13494244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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