Aerodynamics of cambered membrane flapping wings

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shkarayev, Sergey ^a   Silin, Dmytro ^a   Abate, Gregg ^b   Albertani, Roberto ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Camber; Experiments; Flapping wings; Lift; Moment; Thrust; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; CAMBERS; DIHEDRAL ANGLE; EXPERIMENTS; LIFT DRAG RATIO; METHOD OF MOMENTS; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC COEFFICIENTS; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; FLAPPING WING; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; PITCHING MOMENT COEFFICIENTS; REFERENCE VELOCITY; THRUST;

LIFT;

EID: 77955924518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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