Wake structure diagnostics of a flapping wing MAV

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ramasamy, Manikandan ^a   Leishman, J Gordon ^a   Singh, Beerinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC STALLING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

FLAPPING WING MICRO AIR VEHICLE; LASER SHEET FLOW VISUALIZATION; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY ANALYSIS; SIMULTANEOUS FORMATION; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS; UNSTEADY EFFECTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 85072457631     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2005-01-3198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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