Effect of Rotation Kinematics and Angle of Attack on Flapping Flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2505-2519

  Gopalakrishnan, Pradeep ^a   Tafti, Danesh K ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE RATIO; ANGLES OF ATTACK; DOWNSTROKES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FORWARD FLIGHT; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; ROTATION KINEMATICS; ROTATION TIMING; SPANWISE FLOW; TIP VORTEX; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

ANGLE OF ATTACK; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 72149127666     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.37540     Document Type: Article

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