The significance of moment-of-inertia variation in flight manoeuvres of butterflies

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lin, T ^a   Zheng, L ^a   Hedrick, T ^b   Mittal, R ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D KINEMATICS; CENTRE OF MASS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; MASS PROPERTIES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOMENT OF INERTIA; VIDEOGRAMMETRY;

WINGS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VANESSA CARDUI;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; BODY WEIGHT; BUTTERFLY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLYING; FORELIMB; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; BODY WEIGHT; BUTTERFLIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WING;

EID: 84870330755     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/7/4/044002     Document Type: Article

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