The vortex wake of a 'hovering' model hawkmoth

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1351, 1997, Pages 317-328

  Van Den Berg, Coen ^a,b   Ellington, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 0030758575     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0023     Document Type: Article

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