Flowfield of a rotating-wing micro air vehicle

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1236-1244

  Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a,b   Lee, Timothy E ^a,b,c   Leishman, J Gordon ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

^c Minta Martin Intern   (United States)

^d Department of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTORS; SCALING LAWS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

FLOWFIELD; HOVERING EFFICIENCY; ROTATING-WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; ROTATIONAL AERODYNAMIC; TIP VORTICES; VISCOUS CORE SIZES; VORTEX AGING PROCESS; WAKE SHEETS;

AIR CUSHION VEHICLES;

EID: 34548461258     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.26415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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