Lift from spanwise flow in simple flapping wings

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1206-1216

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*

^c Korean Air   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WINGS;

ABSOLUTE MINIMUM; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; FLAPPING MOTION; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; FORCE TRANSDUCERS; MECHANICAL COMPLEXITY; OPERATING CONDITION; SPANWISE FLOW;

PLANFORMS;

EID: 49349092652     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.34100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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