Effect of stroke deviation on forward flapping flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-160

  Viswanath, Kamal ^a,b   Tafti, Danesh K ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 114 K Randolph Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING WING; FLAT PLATE; FORWARD FLIGHT; HIGH POWER; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; OUT-OF-PLANE; POWER REQUIREMENT; THIN SURFACES; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

CLOCKS; KINEMATICS; VORTEX FLOW; WINGS;

TRAJECTORIES;

EID: 84873559733     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J051675     Document Type: Article

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