Thrust generation caused by flapping airfoils in a biplane configuration

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 509-515

  Tuncer, Ismail H ^a   Kaya, Mustafa ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

BIPLANE CONFIGURATION; FLAPPING AIRFOILS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 0038543178     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.3124     Document Type: Article

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