Unsteady fluid physics and surrogate modeling of low Reynolds number, flapping airfoils

38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Trizila, Patrick C ^a   Kang, Chang Kwon ^a   Visbal, Miguel R ^b   Shyy, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

AIRFOIL PERFORMANCE; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY; KINEMATIC PARAMETERS; KINEMATIC VARIABLES; LINEAR SUPERPOSITIONS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRANSLATIONAL VELOCITY;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 73949100722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-3821     Document Type: Conference Paper

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