A computational and experimental study of flexible flapping wing aerodynamics

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Aono, Hikaru ^a   Chimakurthi, Satish Kumar ^a   Wu, Pin ^b   Sällström, Erik ^b   Stanford, Bret K ^b   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a   Ifju, Peter ^b   Ukeiley, Lawrence ^b   Shyy, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLAPPING MECHANISMS; FLAPPING MOTION; FLAPPING WING; FLUID PHYSICS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; LOAD SENSOR; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; SHELL FINITE ELEMENTS; TIP VORTEX; TRAILING EDGES; WING DEFORMATION; WING FLEXIBILITY; WING MOTION;

AERODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ELASTIC WAVES; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW;

AEROELASTICITY;

EID: 77955922888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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