A fringe shadow method for measuring flapping angle and torsional angle of a dragonfly wing

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 776-781

  Zeng, Lijiang ^a   Matsumoto, Hirokazu ^b   Kawachi, Keiji ^c  

^a Tsukuba Research Consortium   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

DRAGONFLY WINGS; FLAPPING ANGLE; FRINGE SHADOW METHOD; TORSIONAL ANGLE;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030150489     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/7/5/009     Document Type: Article

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