Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6959, 2003, Pages 707-711

  Taylor, Graham K ^a   Nudds, Robert L ^a,b   Thomas, Adrian L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; KINEMATICS;

FLYING ANIMALS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; DOLPHIN; FISH; FLYING; KINEMATICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SWIMMING; WING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHONDRICHTHYES; CORYPHAENIDAE; HEXAPODA; OSTEICHTHYES;

EID: 0142153256     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02000     Document Type: Article

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