Static aeroelastic model validation of membrane micro air vehicle wings

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 12861-12877

  Stanford, Bret ^a   Albertani, Roberto ^a   Viieru, Dragos ^b   Shyy, Wei ^b   Ifju, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADS; AIRCRAFT; ANGLE OF ATTACK; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

COMPUTED FLOW STRUCTURES; SEPARATION BUBBLES; VISUAL IMAGE CORRELATION SYSTEM; WING DISPLACEMENTS;

WINGS;

EID: 34250849581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-1067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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