Vortex flows on UAVs: Issues and challenges

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue 1090, 2004, Pages 597-610

  Gursul, I ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASPECT RATIO; FREQUENCIES; PROPULSION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

HIGH ALTITUDE LONG ENDURANCE (HALE); MICRO AIR VEHICLES (MAV); UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV); VORTICITY;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 12844283279     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000000439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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