Static aeroelastic model validation of membrane micro air vehicle wings

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2828-2837

  Stanford, Bret ^a,c   Sytsma, Michael ^a,c   Albertani, Roberto ^a,d   Viieru, Dragos ^b,c   Shyy, Wei ^b,c   Ifju, Peter ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

^d Research and Education Engineering Facility

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELING; STABILITY MARGINS; WING DISPLACEMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; ASPECT RATIO; FLOW STRUCTURE; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

WINGS;

EID: 38049134030     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.30003     Document Type: Article

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