Leading-edge vortex lifts swifts

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5703, 2004, Pages 1957-1960

  Videler, J J ^a,b   Stamhuis, E J ^a   Povel, G D E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY TUNNELS;

GLIDING; PHYSICAL MODELS; POSTURE;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLIGHT; WING;

ARTICLE; BIRD; FORELIMB; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VORTEX MOTION; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; FLYING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

APUS APUS; AVES;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; WING;

EID: 10344220011     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104682     Document Type: Article

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