The Sound Suppression Characteristics of Wing Feather of Owl (Bubo bubo)

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 192-199

  Chen, Kun ^a   Liu, Qingping ^a   Liao, Genghua ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Ren, Luquan ^a   Yang, Hongxiu ^b   Chen, Xin ^c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Eagle owl; Microstructure; Silent flight; Sound suppression; Wing feather

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC NOISE; EAGLE OWL; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES; LEADING EDGE; LOW NOISE; LOWER NOISE; POROUS STRUCTURES; PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; SILENT FLIGHT; SOUND ABSORPTION; SOUND ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; SOUND ABSORPTION PROPERTY; STEREO-MICROSCOPES; SUPPRESSION MECHANISM; TRAILING EDGES; VORTEX SOUND;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; AERODYNAMICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84862065554     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(11)60109-1     Document Type: Article

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