Dynamic pitching of an elastic rectangular wing in hovering motion

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 693, Issue , 2012, Pages 473-499

  Dai, Hu ^a   Luo, Haoxiang ^a   Doyle, James F ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

flow structure interactions; swimming flying; vortex shedding

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DEFORMATION; EFFICIENCY; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; LIFT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STIFFNESS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TURBULENT FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; AERODYNAMIC TORQUE; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLOW-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; SWIMMING/FLYING; VISCOUS INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS;

LOW ASPECT RATIO WINGS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLIGHT; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SWIMMING; VORTEX SHEDDING; WING;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84858681584     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.543     Document Type: Article

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