Membrane wing-based micro air vehicles

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 1-6, 2005, Pages 283-301

  Shyy, Wei ^a   Ifju, Peter ^b   Viieru, Dragos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE WINGS; WING-BASED MICRO AIR VEHICLES;

AERODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

VEHICLES;

EID: 31944434298     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1946067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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