Insects versus birds: The great divide

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 450-455

  Ellington, Charles P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Zoology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-LIFT MECHANISMS; LEADING-EDGE VORTEX (LEV; VORTEX DYNAMICS; WING FORCES;

DRAG; LAMINAR FLOW; TURBULENCE MODELS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES; WINGS;

AERODYNAMICS;

EID: 34250693105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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