Effect of wing flexibility on lift and thrust production in flapping flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 865-877

  Gopalakrishnan, Pradeep ^a,b   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; AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERODYNAMIC PRESSURE; AEROELASTIC EFFECTS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FORCE COMPONENT; FORWARD FLIGHT; INSECT FLIGHT; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LINEAR ELASTIC; NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL; PRE-STRESS; PRESTRESSES; TOP SURFACE; WING DEFORMATION; WING FLEXIBILITY;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; RIGID WINGS; VORTEX FLOW;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 77952486338     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.39957     Document Type: Article

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