Application of fluid–structure interaction analysis to flapping flight of insects with deformable wings

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Hamamoto, Masaki ^a   Ohta, Yoshiji ^a   Hara, Keita ^a   Hisada, Toshiaki ^b  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

AERODYNAMIC FORCE; FLAPPING FLIGHT; LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN METHOD; MICROROBOTS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 33847038442     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855307779293643     Document Type: Article

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