Flapping wings and aerodynamic lift: The role of leading-edge vortices

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2817-2819

  Shyy, Wei ^a,c   Liu, Hao ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

^d Graduate School of Engineering   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAPPING FLIGHTS; FLAPPING WINGS; LEADING-EDGE VORTEX (LEV); MOMENTUM EQUATION;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; PRESSURE CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; WINGS;

LIFT;

EID: 38049112446     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.33205     Document Type: Article

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