Design guidelines of rotary wings in Hover for insect-scale micro air vehicle applications

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 252-263

  Tsuzuki, Noriaki ^a,c   Sato, Shunichi ^b,c   Abe, Takashi ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*  (Japan)

^d AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTORS;

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ROTOR EFFICIENCY;

WINGS;

EID: 33847735497     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.23165     Document Type: Article

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