Computations of insect and fish locomotion with applications to unconventional unmanned vehicles

AIAA Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2178-2190

  Ramamurti, Ravi ^a,b,c   Sandberg, William ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics

^c AIAA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCE GENERATION; FRUIT FLIES; TIME HISTORY; WING FLAPPING;

AERODYNAMICS; BIOMIMETICS; BODIES OF REVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; FRUIT JUICES; GAS DYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW; VEHICLES;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 51749099616     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.32826     Document Type: Article

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