Aeroelastic behaviour of a non-rigidizable inflatable UAV wing

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 6714-6727

  Rendall, Thomas C S ^a,c,d   Chang, Christopher W C ^a,c   Marzocca, Pier ^b,c,e   Bollt, Erik ^b,f   Zamankhan, Parsa ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Bristol ^*  (Singapore)

^f Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROFOILS; INFLATABLE WINGS; LIMIT CYCLE OSCILLATIONS (LCO); TRANSNATIONAL DIVERGENCE;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; STROUHAL NUMBER; VORTEX SHEDDING; WINGS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 34147204406     PISSN: 02734508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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