Dynamic flight stability of a bumblebee in forward flight

Acta Mechanica Sinica/Lixue Xuebao

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-36

  Xiong, Yan ^a   Sun, Mao ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Dynamic stability; Forward flight; Natural modes of motion; Navier Stokes simulation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

BUMBLEBEE; FLIGHT STABILITY; NATURAL MODES OF MOTION;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 38549157502     PISSN: 05677718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10409-007-0121-2     Document Type: Article

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