Dragonfly forewing-hindwing interaction at various flight speeds and wing phasing

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 508-511

  Huang, Hua ^a,b   Sun, Mao ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Fluid Mechanics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY WINGS; FLIGHT SPEEDS; STROKE REVERSAL; VERTICAL FORCES;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCE CONTROL; SPEED CONTROL;

WINGS;

EID: 33847704948     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.24666     Document Type: Article

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