Flow visualization of dragonfly hovering via an electromechanical model

AIAA Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 615-623

  Lu, Yuan ^a,b   Shen, Gong Xin ^a,b   Su, Wen Han ^a,b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Fluid Mechanics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAGONFLY HOVERING; ELECTROMECHANICAL MODELS; LEADING EDGE VORTEX; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 34047259678     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.22088     Document Type: Article

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