Dynamics of a compliant membrane as related to mammalian flight

Collection of Technical Papers - 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 8076-8085

  Song, Arnold J ^a,b   Breuer, Kenneth S ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; GLIDERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

FLOW CONDITIONS; MAMMALIAN FLIGHT; STATIC DEFORMATION; WING STRUCTURES;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 34250866811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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