PAMM
Volume 6, Issue 1 pp. 563-564
Section 10
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A numerical methods for 2-D flow of flapping airfoil

Alexandru Dumitrache, 

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Alexandru Dumitrache

Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Applied Mathematics, P.O. Box 1-24, RO-010145, Bucharest, Romania

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First published: 19 January 2007
https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.200610262

Abstract

To study the physics of the flow of flapping flight, a numerical model for the two-dimensional flow around an airfoil undergoing prescribed oscillatory motions in a viscous flow is described. The model is used to examine the flow characteristics and power coefficients of a symmetric airfoil heaving sinusoidally over a range of frequencies and amplitudes. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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