Analysis of non-symmetrical flapping airfoils

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 433-450

  Tay, W B ^a   Lim, K B ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airfoil; Design of experiments; Flapping; Non symmetrical; Ornithopter

Indexed keywords

FLAPPING; FLAPPING AIRFOILS; IN-BETWEEN; LIFT COEFFICIENT; LIFT FORCE; NON-SYMMETRICAL; ORNITHOPTER; PHASE ANGLES; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; REDUCED FREQUENCY; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; THRUST COEFFICIENTS;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL FILTERS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 67651230672     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-009-0259-1     Document Type: Article

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