Locomotion of a passively flapping flat plate

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 659, Issue , 2010, Pages 43-68

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Liu, Nan Sheng ^a   Lu, Xi Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

propulsion; swimming flying

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; PROPULSION; VORTEX FLOW; WINGS;

DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOURS; FLAPPING FLAT PLATES; FLEXIBILITY MODELING; FORWARD AND BACKWARD MOVEMENT; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; PROPULSIVE PERFORMANCE; SWIMMING/FLYING;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FLIGHT; FLOW STRUCTURE; FLUID MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SWIMMING; WAKE; WING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77957170614     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010002387     Document Type: Article

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