Perturbation analysis of 6DoF flight dynamics and passive dynamic stability of hovering fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-111

  Gao, Na ^a   Aono, Hikaru ^b   Liu, Hao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Flight dynamics; Fruit fly; Insect flight; NS equation; Passive dynamic stability

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; INSECT; KINEMATICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT; FORCE; FORELIMB; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78649598180     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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