Insectlike flapping wings in the hover part 1: Effect of wing kinematics

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1945-1954

  Ansari, Salman A ^a,b   Knowles, Kevin ^a,b   Zbikowski, Rafał ^a,b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Power and Sensors ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERODYNAMIC DESIGNS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; NONLINEAR UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC MODELS; WING GEOMETRY; WING KINEMATICS;

WINGS;

EID: 57649095394     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.35311     Document Type: Article

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