The aerodynamics of compliant membrane wings modeled on mammalian flight mechanics

Collection of Technical Papers - 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 11-22

  Galvao, Ricardo ^a,b   Israeli, Emily ^a,b   Arnold, Song ^a,b   Xiaodong, Tian ^a,c   Bishop, Kristin ^a,c   Swartz, Sharon ^a,c   Breuer, Kenneth ^a,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADING; MAMMALIAN FLIGHT MECHANICS; MEMBRANE VIBRATIONS; MEMBRANE WINGS;

ASPECT RATIO; DRAG; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WINGS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33845268247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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