Numerical study on the effect of trajectory pattern on hovering flight

2010 International Conference on Computer Design and Applications, ICCDA 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Xingwei ^a   Zhou, Chaoying ^a  

^a Shenzhen University Town   (China)

Author keywords

Reynolds number; Trajectory; Vortex structure

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC ANALYSIS; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; FRUIT FLIES; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; MICRO FLYING ROBOTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SHEDDING MECHANISMS; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRAJECTORY PATTERN; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 77955930775     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCDA.2010.5541202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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