Can tip vortices enhance lift of a flapping wing?

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-293

  Shyy, Wei ^a   Trizila, Pat ^b   Kang, Chang Kwon ^b   Aono, Hikaru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LOADINGS; FLAPPING FLAT PLATES; FLAPPING FREQUENCIES; FLAPPING WINGS; FREE STREAMS; FUNCTION OF TIME; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW ASPECT RATIOS; PHASE LAGS; PRESSURE REGIONS; SPANWISE VARIATIONS; TIP VORTICES; WING CHORDS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; ASPECT RATIO; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLOW CONTROL; GAS DYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 60049100801     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.41732     Document Type: Article

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