Experimental investigation of the cycloidal-rotor concept for a hovering micro air vehicle

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1071-1092

  Benedict, Moble ^a   Chopra, Inderjit ^a   Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a   Leishman, J Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF ATTACK; BLADE AIRFOIL; BLADE FLEXIBILITY; BLADE PITCH; CYCLOCOPTER; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; DYNAMIC STALL; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW FEATURES; FLOW FIELD MEASUREMENTS; LEADING-EDGE VORTEX; MICRO AIR-VEHICLES; MICRO-AIR-VEHICLE; MODEL SCALE; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; PITCH ANGLES; POWER LOADING; ROTATIONAL SPEEDS; ROTOR BLADES; ROTOR PERFORMANCES; THRUST MEASUREMENTS; TIP VORTICES; VERTICAL LIFT;

AIRFOILS; CYCLOIDAL PROPULSION VEHICLES; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW VISUALIZATION; GAS DYNAMICS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; SPEED; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WEIGHT CONTROL;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 50049091381     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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