Aeroelastic study of flexible flapping wings by a coupled lattice Boltzmann-finite element approach with immersed boundary method

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 516-533

  De Rosis, Alessandro ^a   Falcucci, Giacomo ^b   Ubertini, Stefano ^c   Ubertini, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flapping wings; Fluid structure interaction; Immersed boundary; Lattice Boltzmann method

Indexed keywords

ABILITY TESTING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; GALERKIN METHODS; KINETIC THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLAPPING WING; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION PROBLEM; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERFACES; GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR; IMMERSED BOUNDARY; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD; TIME-DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 84905264307     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: 10958622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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