Simulations of a passively actuated oscillating airfoil using a Discontinuous Galerkin method

Natural flappers, such as birds and bats, effectively maneuver in transitional, low Reynolds number flow, outperforming any current small engineered flapping vehicle. Thus, engineers are inspired to investigate the flapping dynamics present in nature to further understand the non-tradional flow aero...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Israeli, Emily Renee
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57593