A study of aerodynamics of low reynolds number flexible airfoils

Collection of Technical Papers - 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1465-1481

  Tang, Jian ^a,b   Viieru, Dragos ^a,b   Shyy, Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; MOTION ESTIMATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOUS FLOW;

AIRFOIL SHAPE; STRUCTURAL FLEXIBILITY;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 35648995340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-4212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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