A 3D computational study of the flow-structure interaction in flapping flight

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Luo, Haoxiang ^a   Yin, Bo ^a   Dai, Hu ^a   Doyle, James F ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FORCES; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; ELEMENT TYPE; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLOW SOLVER; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HIGH FIDELITY; IMMERSED-BOUNDARY METHOD; INSECT WINGS; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PLATE AND SHELL; SPECIAL TREATMENTS; THIN STRUCTURE;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 77955925992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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