Modeling of wake vortex effects for unmanned air vehicle simulations

AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Saban, Deborah ^a   Whidborne, James F ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANTENNAS; COMPUTATION THEORY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; FORMATION KEEPING; FORMATION RECONFIGURATIONS; LIFTING LINE THEORY; MATLAB/SIMULINK SIMULATION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE (UAVS); WAKE VORTEX MODELS;

MATLAB;

EID: 77958158157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-5686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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