Wind tunnel tests for a flapping wing model with a changeable camber using macro-fiber composite actuators

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Kim, Dae Kwan ^a   Han, Jae Hung ^b   Kwon, Ki Jung ^a  

^a Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE RATIOS; AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; BIO-MIMETIC; CHORD LENGTHS; FLAPPING WINGS; FLOW REGIONS; FORCE COEFFICIENTS; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNELS; MACRO-FIBER COMPOSITE ACTUATORS; MAXIMUM LIFT COEFFICIENTS; MEAN VALUES; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; POSITIVE EFFECTS; QUASI-STEADY FLOWS; STATIC AND DYNAMICS; STATIC CONDITIONS; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC; UNSTEADY EFFECTS; WIND TUNNEL TESTS; WING FLEXIBILITIES; WING SPANS;

ACTUATORS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; BIOMIMETICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIFT; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; STRUCTURAL MEMBERS; TESTING; TUNNELS; WIND TUNNELS;

GAS DYNAMICS;

EID: 65249160196     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/2/024008     Document Type: Article

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