Bird or bat: Comparing airframe design and flight performance

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hedenström, Anders ^a   Johansson, L Christoffer ^a   Spedding, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a Ecology Building ^*  (Sweden)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFRAME DESIGN; MANEUVERING FLIGHT; METABOLIC RATES; SHAPE ADAPTATION; SIZE RANGES;

AERODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS;

BIRDS;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLYING; FORELIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

EID: 64549092451     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/1/015001     Document Type: Article

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