Aeroelastic analysis of a micro-air-vehicle-scale cycloidal rotor in hover

AIAA Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2430-2443

  Benedict, Moble ^a,c   Mattaboni, Mattia ^b,c   Chopra, Inderjit ^a,c   Masarati, Pierangelo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROELASTICITY; FORECASTING; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS; AEROELASTIC MODELING; BLADE DEFORMATION; BLADE FLEXIBILITY; DOUBLE MULTIPLE STREAMTUBE; GEOMETRICALLY EXACT BEAMS; NON-LINEAR BEAMS; UNSTEADY AERODYNAMICS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 80054972472     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050756     Document Type: Article

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