Leading-edge vortices elevate lift of autorotating plant seeds

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5933, 2009, Pages 1438-1440

  Lentink, D ^a   Dickson, W B ^b   Van Leeuwen, J L ^a   Dickinson, M H ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DECIDUOUS TREE; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GROWTH RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEED; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

ARTICLE; BAT; BIRD; COMPUTER MODEL; INSECT; KINEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE; VELOCITY;

ACER; BETULACEAE; BIOMECHANICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; ROTATION; SEEDS;

ACER; ANIMALIA; AVES; CARPINUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 67149133361     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1174196     Document Type: Article

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