Aerodynamic study of a flapping-wing micro-UAV

37th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Vest, Michael S ^a   Katz, Joseph ^a  

^a San Diego State Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LIFT; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); WIND TUNNELS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; FLAPPING WING MOTION; FLYING VEHICLES; FORWARD FLIGHT; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL; SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; UNSTEADY NUMERICAL METHOD; VARIABLE GEOMETRY;

WINGS;

EID: 84982318867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1999-994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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