Laser sheet visualization for flapping motion in hover

2006-12-01
Kurtuluş, Dilek Funda
Farcy, Alain
Alemdaroglu, Nafiz
The aim of the present study is to understand the aerodynamics phenomena and the vortex topology of the highly unsteady flapping motion. Instead of the use of real insect/bird wing geometries and motions which are highly complex and difficult to imitate by an exact modeling, a simplified model is used to understand the unsteady aerodynamics and vortex formation during the different phase of the flapping motion.
44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting 2006 , vol.5, Reno, NV, United States Of America (2006)

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Citation Formats
D. F. Kurtuluş, A. Farcy, and N. Alemdaroglu, “Laser sheet visualization for flapping motion in hover,” 2006, vol. 5, p. 3082, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71791.