Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics of Low-Aspect-Ratio, Thin/Flat/Cambered-Plate Wings

By A. Pelletier, Thomas J. Mueller. 2000

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Unsteady aerodynamics of nonslender delta wings (2005, background): “Separated and vortical flows are common over low-aspect-ratio wings, in particular at low Reynolds numbers [66].”
Aeromechanics of Membrane Wings with Implications for Animal Flight ArnoldSong, ∗ XiaodongTian, † EmilyIsraeli, ‡ RicardoGalvao, § KristinBishop, ¶ SharonSwartz, ∗∗ (2008, methodology): “Experimental studies by Pelletier andMueller [13] and Torres and Mueller [14] reported on experiments with rigid, thin LAR airfoils of varying camber and planform shapes for Re 10(5).”
AERODYNAMICS OF SMALL VEHICLES (2003, background): “Recently, Pelletier & Mueller (2000) and Mueller A n n u .”
Low speed flutter and limit cycle oscillations of a two-degree-of-freedom flat plate in a wind tunnel (2013, methodology): “(Open circles): Fage and Johansen (1927), Re ≈10 5 ; (open squares): Pelletier and Mueller (2000), Re ≈8×10 5 ; (filled triangles): present study, Re ≈2.3×10”
Three-dimensional flows around low-aspect-ratio flat-plate wings at low Reynolds numbers (2009, background): “The shape of the leading or trailing edge (sharp or rounded) has been found to result in no important change in the lift and drag coefficients aside from some difference in the momentum coefficient at higher Reynolds numbers of O(104–105) (Pelletier & Mueller 2000; Torres & Mueller 2004).”