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Flapping wings can significantly improve the performance of micro air vehicles but are also very noisy. This work explores the noise and thrust produced by flapping wings with some tension of their membrane and compares them with those of representative wings without tensed membranes.

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This page is a summary of: Low-Noise Flapping Wings with Tensed Membrane, AIAA Journal, June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/1.j058900.
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