Simplified dragonfly airfoil aerodynamics at Reynolds numbers below 8000

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Levy, David Elie ^a   Seifert, Avraham ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; AERODYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIGID WINGS; STREAM FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AIRFOIL AERODYNAMICS; FLOW FIELD CHARACTERISTICS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER AIRFOILS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SHEDDING FREQUENCIES; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; WATER TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 70350716644     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3166867     Document Type: Article

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