Unsteady aerodynamic force generation by a model fruit fly wing in flapping motion

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-70

  Sun, Mao ^a   Tang, Jian ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Drosophila sp.; Flight; Fruit fly; Insect; Unsteady aerodynamics; Wing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; FLYING; FORELIMB; MATHEMATICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; ROTATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; ROTATION; WING;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SP.; INSECTA;

EID: 0036339179     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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