Comb wings for flapping flight at extremely low Reynolds numbers

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 285-288

  Weihs, D ^a,b   Barta, E ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MICROELECTRONICS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMB WINGS; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; FLAPPING FLIGHT; NONLINEAR VARIATIONS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 38549141144     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.32500     Document Type: Article

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