Effect of frontal gusts on flexible wings in forward flapping flight

40th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Viswanath, Kamal ^a,b   Tafti, Danesh K ^a,b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b 114 K Randolph Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAPPING FLIGHT; FORWARD FLIGHT; INTEGRAL LENGTH SCALE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS; STEP FUNCTIONS; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; UNSTEADY MECHANISM;

FLUID DYNAMICS; RIGID WINGS; WINGS;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 78649468399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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