Insect normal hovering flight in ground effect

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Gao, Tong ^a   Lu, Xi Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW;

FORCE ENHANCEMENT; HOVERING FLIGHTS; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; PHASE DIFFERENCE; VORTEX STRUCTURES; VORTICAL STRUCTURES;

GROUND EFFECT;

EID: 51249090688     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2958318     Document Type: Article

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