Experimental and computational study of flapping wing aerodynamics at low reynolds number

• Main Author: Chai, Vincent Wee Sern
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Aerodynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/54897
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recent rapid developments in micro-sized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Underwater Vehicles (UWVs) have attracted renewed research interest in flapping wings aerodynamics. Due to the limitation of the size of these vehicles, complex motions employed by the birds and fishes have to be simplified...