Forward flight of swallowtail butterfly with simple flapping motion

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Tanaka, Hiroto ^a   Shimoyama, Isao ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; DEGREE OF DEFORMATIONS; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING MOTION; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; HIGH SPEED VIDEO CAMERAS; LIFT COEFFICIENT; WING DEFORMATION;

AERODYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL;

STEAM CONDENSATE;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONIDAE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BUTTERFLY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLYING; FORELIMB; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BUTTERFLIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; WING;

EID: 77952947245     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/5/2/026003     Document Type: Article

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