Time-resolved wake structure and kinematics of bat flight

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 933-943

  Hubel, Tatjana Y ^a   Hristov, Nickolay I ^a   Swartz, Sharon M ^a   Breuer, Kenneth S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSTROKE; FLIGHT PROFILES; STREAMWISE VORTICES; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS; TREFFTZ PLANES; VERTICAL MOTIONS; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WAKE STRUCTURES; WAKE VELOCITIES; WAKE VORTICES; WING KINEMATICS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

WINGS;

EID: 67349287357     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-009-0624-7     Document Type: Article

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