Spanwise flow on an impulsively-started rotating wing at low Reynolds numbers

39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ansari, Salman A ^a   Phillips, Nathan ^b   Stabler, Graham ^b   Zbikowski, Rafal ^b   Knowles, Kevin ^b  

^a Meggitt PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE FLOW; CONSTANT SPEED; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; SPANWISE FLOW; VORTEX IDENTIFICATION SCHEMES; WING KINEMATICS; WING SWEEP;

AERODYNAMICS; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROTATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 78349258192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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