Three-dimensional effects on a waving wing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jones, Anya R ^a   Babinsky, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; DRAG; KINEMATICS; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; FINITE SPAN WINGS; FLAPPING WING MOTION; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELD; VELOCITY PROFILES; VORTEX IDENTIFICATION SCHEMES;

WINGS;

EID: 77955925450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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