Plasma actuators for hingeless aerodynamic control of an unmanned air vehicle

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1264-1274

  Patel, Mehul P ^a,c,d   Ng, T Terry ^a,d,e   Vasudevan, Srikanth ^a,d,e   Corke, Thomas C ^b,d,f   He, Chuan ^b,f  

^a Orbital Research Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c Aerodynamics Group   (United States)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e 101 Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research ^*  (United States)

^f University of Notre Dame

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; HINGES; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

LEE-SIDE WINGS; PLASMA ACTUATORS; WIND-TUNNEL TESTS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 34548351757     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.25368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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