Flexible flapping systems: Computational investigations into fluid-structure interactions

Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1172, 2011, Pages 593-604

  Fitzgerald, T ^a   Valdez, M ^a   Vanella, M ^a   Balaras, E ^a   Balachandran, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KINEMATICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; VISCOUS FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; POTENTIAL FLOW MODEL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; UNSTEADY VORTEX-LATTICE METHODS; VISCOUS INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 80055096274     PISSN: 00019240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000192400000628X     Document Type: Article

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