Simulation of wake vortex effects for UAVs in close formation flight

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1149, 2009, Pages 727-738

  Saban, D ^a   Whidborne, J F ^a   Cooke, A K ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; MATLAB; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AERIAL REFUELLING; AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DEPLOYMENT SIMULATION; MATLAB/SIMULINK SIMULATION; MODEL INTEGRATION; VEHICLE FORMATIONS; WAKE VORTEX MODELS;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 74549181041     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001924000003389     Document Type: Article

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