How wing compliance drives the efficiency of self-propelled flapping flyers

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Thiria, Benjamin ^a   Godoy Diana, Ramiro ^a  

^a ESPCI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC BENDING; ELASTIC RESTORING FORCES; FLAPPING-WING; FLEXIBLE PLATES; INERTIAL FORCES; PROPULSIVE EFFICIENCIES; PROPULSIVE FORCES; SCALING ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; TIME-DEPENDENT; WING FLEXIBILITY;

DEFORMATION;

FLEXIBLE WINGS;

EID: 77954832126     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.015303     Document Type: Article

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