A search for optimal wing strokes in flapping flight: Can engineers improve upon nature?

28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zheng, Lingxiao ^a   Mittal, Rajat ^a   Hedrick, Tyson L ^b  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANTENNAS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); WINGS;

COMPOSITE MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; FLAPPING FLIGHT; HOVERING FLIGHTS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; NAVIER STOKES FLOW; NUMBER OF FACTORS;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 78649519332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-4944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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