Flapping and flexible wing aerodynamics of low reynolds number flight vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 9, Issue , 2006, Pages 6087-6104

  Viieru, Dragos ^a,d,e   Tang, Jian ^b,d   Lian, Yongsheng ^b,d,e   Liu, Hao ^c,d,e   Shyy, Wei ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

^e AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; LAMINAR FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW;

FLUID PHYSICS; LIFT GENERATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER FLIGHT VEHICLES;

WINGS;

EID: 34250709424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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