Hovering of a passive body in an oscillating airflow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Childress, Stephen ^a   Vandenberghe, Nicolas ^a,b   Zhang, Jun ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING; WINGS;

FLAPPING; HOVERING; OSCILLATING FLOW; PASSIVE BODY;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING; WINGS;

EID: 33751557141     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2371123     Document Type: Article

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