Optimization of the motion of a flapping airfoil using sensitivity functions

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 861-874

  Soueid, Houssam ^a,c   Guglielmini, Laura ^b   Airiau, Christophe ^c   Bottaro, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMFT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; COMPUTER CRIME; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; KINEMATICS; MECHANICS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

CONTROL PARAMETERS; COST FUNCTIONAL; FLAPPING AIRFOILS; FLAPPING MOTIONS; LIFT-TO-DRAG RATIOS; LINEAR DEPENDENCES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OPTIMAL CONFIGURATIONS; OPTIMAL VALUES; PHASE ANGLES; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; QUASI-NEWTON METHODS; REYNOLDS; SENSITIVITY FUNCTIONS; THRUST FORCES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 59849104035     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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