Aerodynamics of flapping-wing micro air vehicles

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Shkarayev, Sergey ^a   Silin, Dmitro ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Experiments; Flapping; Flight; Lift; Ornithopter; Thrust; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; DIHEDRAL ANGLE; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FIXED WINGS; FLEXIBLE WINGS; LIFT; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC FORCE MEASUREMENTS; FLAPPING; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; FLEXIBLE FLAPPING WINGS; FLIGHT; ORNITHOPTER; THRUST; THRUST AND NORMAL FORCES;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 78549239600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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