Modified unsteady vortex-lattice method to study flapping wings in hover flight

AIAA Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2628-2642

  Roccia, Bruno A ^a   Preidikman, Sergio ^a   Massa, Julio C ^a   Mook, Dean T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROELASTIC ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; NON-LINEAR AERODYNAMICS; UNSTEADY VORTEX-LATTICE METHODS; VORTEX LATTICE METHOD; WING-TIP SEPARATION;

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; WAKES; WINGS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84886672958     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J052262     Document Type: Article

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