Numerical simulation of flapping-wing insect hovering flight at unsteady flow

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1801-1817

  Zuo, Decan ^a   Peng, Songlin ^a   Chen, Wenyuan ^a   Zhang, Weiping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological fluid mechanics; Navier stokes equations; Unsteady three dimensional incompressible flow

Indexed keywords

AXIAL FLOW; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW; VIRTUAL REALITY; WINGS;

FLYING BUMBLEBEE; HOVERING FLIGHT; INTEGRATED GEOMETRY; PRESSURE FIELDS;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; AXIAL FLOW; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW FIELDS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW; VIRTUAL REALITY; WINGS;

EID: 34247402093     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1379     Document Type: Article

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