Resonance and propulsion performance of a heaving flexible wing

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Michelin, Sébastien ^a,b   Llewellyn Smith, Stefan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; PARALLEL FLOW; RESONANCE; RIGID WINGS; RIGIDITY; WINGS;

BENDING RIGIDITY; FORCING FREQUENCIES; INVISCID LIMITS; POTENTIAL-FLOW THEORY; PROPULSION PERFORMANCE; PROPULSIVE PERFORMANCE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; TRAILING EDGES;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 70350714614     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3177356     Document Type: Article

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