A combined experimental-numerical study of the role of wing flexibility in insect flight

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Lingxiao ^a   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Khan, Afzal ^a   Vallance, R R ^a   Mittal, Rajat ^a   Hedrick, Tyson L ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPONENTS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH-SPEED; INSECT FLIGHT; INTEGRATED PROGRAMS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; VIDEOGRAMMETRY; WING FLEXIBILITY;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; RESEARCH;

FREE FLIGHT;

EID: 77957792877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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