The barn owl wing: An inspiration for silent flight in the aviation industry?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7975, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bachmann, Thomas ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^b   Wagner, Hermann ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

air flow control; barn owl; bird wing; feather; morphometrics; silent flight

Indexed keywords

AIR-FLOW CONTROL; BARN OWL; FEATHER; MORPHOMETRICS; SILENT FLIGHT;

AIR; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AIRFOILS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLOW CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WIND POWER;

BIRDS;

EID: 79956144548     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.882703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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