Flexible-membrane airfoils at low reynolds numbers

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1767-1778

  Hu, Hui ^a,b   Tamai, Masatoshi ^a,b   Murphy, Jeffery T ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mail Box 1513

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; DEFORMATION; FLOW SEPARATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MEMBRANES; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERODYNAMIC FORCE MEASUREMENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; HIGH ANGLES OF ATTACK; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY SYSTEM; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 54549088829     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.36438     Document Type: Article

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