Dissecting insect flight

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 183-210

  Wang, Z Jane ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofluiddynamics; Computational fluid dynamics; Drag; Efficiency; Forward flight; Hovering; Lift; Low Reynolds number flapping flight; Passive flight; Robotic insects; Unsteady aerodynamics; Unsteady Navier Stokes solutions; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICS; MOTION ESTIMATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

FLAPPING FLIGHT; INSECTS; TRAVEL EFFICIENCY;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

AERODYNAMICS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM; FLUID MECHANICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

EID: 11144288062     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.36.050802.121940     Document Type: Review

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