Actuator disk model and span efficiency of flapping flight in bats based on time-resolved PIV measurements

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 511-525

  Muijres, Florian T ^a   Spedding, Geoffrey R ^b   Winter, York ^c,d   Hedenström, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC LIFT; ANIMAL SPECIES; FLAPPING FLIGHT; LIFT FORCE; MICRO-AIR VEHICLE DESIGN; QUASI-STEADY; SPAN EFFICIENCY; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-RESOLVED PIV;

AERODYNAMICS; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MAMMALS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

ACTUATOR DISKS;

EID: 80052657057     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1067-5     Document Type: Article

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