Applications of actuator disk theory to membrane flapping wings

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2227-2234

  Shkarayev, Sergey ^a,b   Silin, Dmytro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c Graduate Research Assistant   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR-DISK; BEST FIT; CORRECTION FACTORS; ELASTIC MEMBRANES; EMPIRICAL CORRECTION FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLAPPING WING; FORWARD SPEED; FREE-STREAM VELOCITY; INDUCED VELOCITY; INPUT POWER; NUMERICAL VALUES; TEMPORAL VARIANCE; THEORETICAL VALUES; THRUST FORCES; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AERODYNAMICS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ACTUATOR DISKS;

EID: 78649627003     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050139     Document Type: Article

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