Effect of Spanwise Flexibility on Flapping Wing Propulsion
By S. Heathcote, Zhijin Wang, I. Gursul. 2006
490 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics
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In Aerospace Engineering
- Hikaru Aono
- Chang-kwon Kang
- Wei Shyy
- Carlos E. S. Cesnik
- Pat Trizila
- Hao Liu
- Satish Kumar Chimakurthi
- Philip S. Beran
In Computational Mechanics
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- Hikaru Aono
- Chang-kwon Kang
- Carlos E. S. Cesnik
- Pat Trizila
- Hao Liu
- Satish Kumar Chimakurthi
- Philip S. Beran
Citations in the corpus
- Force production and asymmetric deformation of a flexible flapping wing in forward flight (2013, unknown): “Experiments on the wing flexibility have been carried out using heaving-only airfoils or membranous wings in rotational motion (Heathcote et al., 2004, 2008; Mazaheri and Ebrahimi, 2010), and they have demonstrated that both chordwise and spanwise deformations can have positive impact on the thrust…”
- Analytical Sensitivity Analysis of an Unsteady Vortex Lattice Method for Flapping Wing Optimization (2009, background): “[37], who study a rectangular plunging wing in a water tunnel.”
- Recent progress in flapping wing aerodynamics and aeroelasticity (2010, background): “[250] conducted water-tunnel studies to study the effect of spanwise flexibility on the thrust, lift, and propulsive efficiency of a plunging flexible wing configuration in forward flight.”
- Flapping wing micro-aerial-vehicle: Kinematics, membranes, and flapping mechanisms of ornithopter and insect flight (2016, background): “Both Heathcote et al.(46) and Hu et al.”
- Effects of flexibility on the aerodynamic performance of flapping wings (2011, methodology): “…scaling for 〈CP〉 reduces to St2(1 + 4ρ∗h∗s/π), hence 〈CP〉 ∼ St2 in water, such as in the experimental setup considered in this study (Heathcote & Gursul 2007; Heathcote et al. 2008), or for fixed density ratios and thickness ratios of the wing, consistent with the previous literature (Heathcote…”
- Flapping Wing Aerodynamics: Progress and Challenges (2008, unknown): “[26].”