Flight dynamics of highly flexible flying wings

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1790-1798

  Patil, Mayuresh J ^a,c,d   Hodges, Dewey H ^b,d,e  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering ^*

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e School of Aerospace Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT MOTION; FLEXIBLE FLYING WINGS; NONLINEAR FLIGHT SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION;

WINGS;

EID: 33846037173     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17640     Document Type: Article

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