Impulsively started flat plate wing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Beckwith, R M H ^a   Babinsky, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; ASPECT RATIO; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ANGLES OF ATTACK; CHORD-BASED REYNOLDS NUMBER; CONSTANT SPEED; DYE FLOW-VISUALIZATION; FLAPPING FLIGHT; LIFT CHARACTERISTICS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; UNSTEADY MECHANISM;

WINGS;

EID: 78349264873     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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