Wing flexibility effects in clap-and-fling

International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 217-227

  Percin, M ^a   Hu, Y ^b   Van Oudheusden, B W ^a   Remes, B ^a   Scarano, F ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM EQUATION; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLAPPING-WING; LEADING EDGE; PIV MEASUREMENTS; PLANFORM; POLYESTER FILMS; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; TIME-RESOLVED; TOMOGRAPHIC; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX GENERATION; VORTICAL STRUCTURES; WING FLEXIBILITY; WING MODELS;

ESTERS; MIRRORS; PLASTIC FILMS; POLYESTERS; RIGID WINGS; VORTEX FLOW; WATER TANKS;

PLANFORMS;

EID: 84863020665     PISSN: 17568293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1756-8293.3.4.217     Document Type: Article

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