Dynamic behavior of the vortex ring formed on a butterfly wing

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fuchiwaki, Masaki ^a   Kuroki, Taichi ^a   Tanaka, Kazuhiro ^a   Tababa, Takahide ^b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY WINGS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; GROWTH PROCESS; INSECT WINGS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX RINGS; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

ROBOTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84871671792     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-012-1450-x     Document Type: Article

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