Silent OWL flight: Bird flyover noise measurements

AIAA Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 769-779

  Sarradj, Ennes ^a,b   Fritzsche, Christoph ^a,b   Geyer, Thomas ^a,b   Gutmark, E ^a,b  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Traffic Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; AERODYNAMIC NOISE; ARRAY MEASUREMENTS; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE REDUCTIONS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; VIDEO CAMERAS;

BIRDS;

EID: 79953074208     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050703     Document Type: Article

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