Effect of wing inertia on hovering performance of flexible flapping wings

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yin, Bo ^a   Luo, Haoxiang ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DRAG; DEFORMATION; LIFT; RIGID WINGS; WINGS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; AERODYNAMIC FORCES; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; FLEXIBLE FLAPPING WINGS; FLOW-INDUCED DEFORMATION; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HOVERING PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR DEFORMATIONS;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 79251571167     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3499739     Document Type: Article

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