Flapping states of a flag in an inviscid fluid: Bistability and the transition to chaos

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Alben, Silas ^a   Shelley, Michael J ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POWER SPECTRUM; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FLAPPING STATES; INVISCID FLUID; LINEAR STABILITY DOMAIN; VORTEX SHEET;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 40849093169     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.074301     Document Type: Article

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