The kinematics of falling maple seeds and the initial transition to a helical motion

Nonlinearity

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Varshney, Kapil ^a   Chang, Song ^a   Wang, Z Jane ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 84863345307     PISSN: 09517715     EISSN: 13616544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0951-7715/25/1/C1     Document Type: Article

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