Wake patterns of the wings and tail of hovering hummingbirds

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 835-846

  Altshuler, Douglas L ^a   Princevac, Marko ^b   Pan, Hansheng ^b   Lozano, Jesse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPHASE; FLIGHT SPEED; FORWARD FLIGHTS; FORWARD VELOCITIES; HIGH-SPEED IMAGES; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; IN-PHASE; KINEMATIC PATTERNS; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PEAK VELOCITIES; PHASE-SHIFTED PATTERNS; SINGLE VORTICES; VELOCITY PATTERNS; VORTEX LOOPS; WAKE PATTERNS; WING TIPS; ZERO VELOCITIES;

FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; IMAGE RECORDING; MAMMALS; MODEL STRUCTURES; VELOCITY; WAKES;

WINGS;

EID: 67349172655     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-008-0602-5     Document Type: Article

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