Hover performance of a micro air vehicle: Rotors at low reynolds number

AHS International Specialists' Meeting - Unmanned Rotorcraft: Design, Control and Testing, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 285-296

  Hein, Benjamin ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBER DISTRIBUTION; FIGURE OF MERIT (FM); HOVER PERFORMANCE; MICRO AIR VEHICLES;

DRAG; FLOW VISUALIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33644653949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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