Flow visualization and wall shear stress of a flapping model hummingbird wing

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 657-671

  Swanton, Erik W M ^a   Vanier, Blake A ^a   Mohseni, Kamran ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SIMILARITIES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; FLAPPING FREQUENCY; FLAPPING MODELS; FLAPPING MOTION; HOT-FILM ANEMOMETRY; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; OPERATING FREQUENCY; SHEAR SENSOR; SPANWISE FLOW; SUSPENDED PARTICLES; THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM; VORTEX STRENGTH; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

ANEMOMETERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SENSORS; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77956620251     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-010-0832-1     Document Type: Article

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