Effect of frontal gusts on forward flapping flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2049-2062

  Viswanath, Kamal ^a,b   Tafti, Danesh K ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 114 K Randolph Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSTROKES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FORCE CHARACTERISTICS; FORWARD FLIGHT; INTEGRAL LENGTH SCALE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; STEP FUNCTIONS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; UNSTEADY MECHANISM; WING ROTATION; WING SURFACE;

ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); RIGID WINGS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77957122929     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050263     Document Type: Article

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