Aerodynamic force generation in hovering flight in a tiny insect

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1532-1540

  Sun, Mao ^a,b   Yu, Xin ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Fluid Mechanics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCE GENERATION; ENCARSIA FORMOSA; FLAPPING MOTION; STROKE CYCLE;

AERODYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 33747047282     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17356     Document Type: Article

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