Simulations of dynamics of plunge and pitch of a three-dimensional flexible wing in a low Reynolds number flow

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Qi, Dewei ^a,b   Liu, Yingming ^a   Shyy, Wei ^c   Aono, Hikaru ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Western Michigan University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DRAG; ELASTICITY; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIGID WINGS; RIGIDITY; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

BALL AND SOCKETS; EULER-BERNOULLI BEAM EQUATION; LATTICE BOLTZMANN; LINEAR ELASTICITY; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 79251553791     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3481786     Document Type: Article

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