Numerical and experimental investigation of the role of flexibility in flapping wing flight

Collection of Technical Papers - 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 774-787

  Toomey, Jonathan ^a,b   Eldredge, Jeff D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; VORTEX FLOW;

DYNAMICALLY-SCALED EXPERIMENTS; FLAPPING WING FLIGHT; WING FLEXIBILITY;

WINGS;

EID: 33845235656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-3211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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