Computational analysis of hovering hummingbird flight

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liang, Zongxian ^a   Dong, Haibo ^a   Wei, Mingjun ^b  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ASYMMETRIC MOTION; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DOWNSTROKES; FLIGHT PATTERNS; HOVERING MOTIONS; HUMMINGBIRD FLIGHT; LARGE SIZES; WAKE STRUCTURES; WING KINEMATICS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS;

EID: 77955927546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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