Streamwise vorticity in simple mechanical flapping wings

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1588-1597

  Hong, Youngsun ^a,b   Altman, Aaron ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; KINEMATICS; STREAM FLOW; TRANSDUCERS; WINGS;

FLAPPING WINGS; PITCH ANGLE; QUIESCENT AIR;

VORTICITY;

EID: 36348969000     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.27824     Document Type: Article

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