Hover performance of a micro air vehicle: Rotors at low Reynolds number

Journal of the American Helicopter Society

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 254-262

  Hein, Benjamin R ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^b  

^a SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WAKES;

LOAD MEASUREMENT; MICRO AIR VEHICLE; ROTOR BLADE;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 34548131636     PISSN: 00028711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4050/JAHS.52.254     Document Type: Article

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