Application of digital particle image velocimetry to insect aerodynamics: Measurement of the leading-edge vortex and near wake of a Hawkmoth

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 546-554

  Bomphrey, Richard J ^a   Lawson, Nicholas J ^a,b   Taylor, Graham K ^a   Thomas, Adrian L R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; LIFT; SMOKE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WINGS;

DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (DPIV); INSECT AERODYNAMICS; INSECTS; VORTEX LOOPS;

AERODYNAMICS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LIFT; SMOKE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WINGS;

EID: 33645741777     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-005-0094-5     Document Type: Article

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