Dynamic Soaring in Finite-Thickness Wind Shears: an Asymptotic Solution
Building upon our recent description of dynamic soaring as a succession of small amplitude arcs nearly crosswind, rather than a sequence of half-turns, we formulate an asymptotic expansion for the minimum-wind dynamic soaring cycle when the shear layer between the slow and fast regions has a thin bu...
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123819 |