Three-dimensional waving wings at low Reynolds Numbers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jones, Anya R ^a   Babinsky, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

FINITE SPAN WINGS; FLAPPING WING MOTION; FLOW DEVELOPMENT; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SPANWISE VELOCITY;

WINGS;

EID: 78349242391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-790     Document Type: Conference Paper

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