The effect of phase angle and wing spacing on tandem flapping wings

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1557-1571

  Broering, Timothy M ^a   Lian, Yong Sheng ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Airfoils; Caculational fluid dynamics (CFD); Flapping; Micro air vehicle; Overlapping grids list of symbols; Tandem

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIRFOILS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EFFICIENCY; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WINGS;

2-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; CACULATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD); CHORD-BASED REYNOLDS NUMBER; FLAPPING; INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES; OVERLAPPING GRIDS; SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATIONS; TANDEM;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84871525922     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: 16143116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-012-0210-8     Document Type: Article

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