Modeling the unsteady aerodynamic forces on small-scale wings

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Brunton, Steven L ^a   Rowley, Clarence W ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC MODELS; BODY FORCES; BREAK DOWN; CLASSICAL THEORY; COHERENT STRUCTURE; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS MODEL; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; FLAT PLATE; FLOW FIELD STRUCTURE; GALERKIN PROJECTIONS; HIGH ANGLE OF ATTACK; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; LAMINAR SEPARATIONS; LOW ORDER; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; QUALITATIVE BEHAVIOR; REDUCED FREQUENCY; REDUCED ORDER MODELS; SEPARATED FLOWS; TWO-DEGREE OF FREEDOM; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC FORCE; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS; VELOCITY FIELD; WAKE STRUCTURES;

AERODYNAMIC STALLING; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANGLE OF ATTACK; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FLOW FIELDS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STROUHAL NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

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EID: 78549236532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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