Propulsive performance and vortex shedding of a foil in flapping flight

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 165, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 189-206

  Lu, X Y ^a   Yang, J M ^a   Yin, X Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

LEADING-EDGE VORTEX SHEDDING; LEADING-EDGE VORTEX STRUCTURES; STREAM FUNCTION FORMULATION; UNSTEADY FORCES;

VORTEX SHEDDING;

EID: 0346398302     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00707-003-0013-x     Document Type: Article

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