Wind tunnel data base development and nonlinear modeling applied to powered micro air vehicles with flexible wing

Collection of Technical Papers - 2006 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1294-1307

  Albertani, Roberto ^a,d   DeLoach, Richard ^b,d,e   Stanford, Bret ^a,d,e   Hubner, James P ^a,c   Ifju, Peter ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e NASA LaRC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE WINGS; LINEAR LIFT; LINEAR PITCHING MOMENT; OPERATION REGIME;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); ELEVATORS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; PROPULSION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TUNNELS;

WINGS;

EID: 33751397666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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