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The applied science that deals with the dynamics of airflow and the resulting interactions between this airflow and solid boundaries. The solid...
It might be thought that low-speed small-scale aircraft are simply smaller versions of full-scale designs and that textbook aerodynamics apply to...
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) constitute a class of small flying systems intended to perform non-traditional tasks, such as indoor and/or urban...
A duct in which the effects of airflow past objects can be determined. The steady-state forces on a body held still in moving air are the same as...
Aerodynamics (in 'Aircraft icing' article)
Icing affects the propulsion system by reducing the thrust of the engine and thus the ability of the aircraft to climb and maintain speed or altitude.
Aerodynamics (in 'Helicopter' article)
The basic physics of rotor aerodynamics, particularly the aerodynamic relationships for a rotor in hover or vertical climb, closely parallels the phys


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Figure 1.Airfoils from the early twentieth century. (a) Thin airfoil (Göttingen 342). (b) Thick airfoil (Göttingen 387).
From update 'Low-speed aircraft'
Figure 1.Optimized pressure distribution of a flapping, morphing wing. The scale bar is for the (dimensionless) pressure coefficient. (From M. Ghommem et al., Global optimization of flapping kinematics for micro air vehicles, 15th International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics, Paris, France, IFASD-2011-150, June 2011)
Figure 1.Outline plan view of low-speed return-flow wind tunnel.
From Encyclopedia article 'Wind tunnel'
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