Wingbeat time and the scaling of passive rotational damping in flapping flight

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5924, 2009, Pages 252-255

  Hedrick, Tyson L ^a   Cheng, Bo ^b   Deng, Xinyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLIGHT; FLY; FRUIT; INSECT; KINEMATICS; MORPHOLOGY; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; TORQUE; VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DECELERATION; DROSOPHILA; FLYING; KINEMATICS; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; CHIROPTERA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ROTATION; TORQUE; WING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; HEXAPODA;

EID: 64849101138     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168431     Document Type: Article

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