Hummingbirds generate bilateral vortex loops during hovering: Evidence from flow visualization

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Pournazeri, Sam ^a   Segre, Paolo S ^b,c   Princevac, Marko ^a   Altshuler, Douglas L ^b,c  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; AIR DENSITY; BILATERAL MODEL; DOWNSTROKES; FRAMES PER SECONDS; HIGH SPEED IMAGE; KINEMATIC DATA; KINEMATIC RANGE; MEASUREMENT PLANES; METABOLIC COST; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SINGLE LOOP; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; VORTEX LOOPS; VORTEX RINGS; VORTEX TOPOLOGY; VORTEX WAKES; WING TIPS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KINEMATICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84871396603     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-012-1439-5     Document Type: Article

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