Computational modeling of spanwise flexibility effects on flapping wing aerodynamics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aono, Hikaru ^a   Chimakurthi, Satish Kumar ^a   Cesnik, Carlos E S ^a   Liu, Hao ^b   Shyy, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; FLUID STRUCTURAL INTERACTIONS; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; MOTION AND DEFORMATIONS; THRUST GENERATION;

WINGS;

EID: 78549295567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-1270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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