Preliminary experiments of a flapping wing in three-degree-of-freedom motions

ICAS-Secretariat - 25th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1461-1471

  Huang, X ^a   Brown, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flapping wing aerodynamics; Three degree of freedom; Water tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; STRAIN GAGES; TUNNELS;

3DOF MOTION; ANGLE-OF-ATTACK; FLAPPING WING AERODYNAMIC; FLAPPING-WING; INSECT WINGS; NORMAL FORCES; THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; THREE-DEGREE OF FREEDOM (3DOF); WATER TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS; WING AERODYNAMICS;

ANGLE OF ATTACK;

EID: 84896983096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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