Wind tunnel testing of micro air vehicles at low reynolds numbers

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Albertani, Roberto ^a   Hubner, Paul ^a   Ifju, Peter ^a   Lind, Rick ^a   Jackowski, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TESTING; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION; AERODYNAMIC DERIVATIVES; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MODELING AND CONTROL; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; WIND-TUNNEL FACILITIES; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 85088741201     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2004-01-3090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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