The near wake of a freely flying European starling

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kirchhefer, Adam J ^a   Kopp, Gregory A ^a   Gurka, Roi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS; WINGS;

EUROPEAN STARLING; FLAPPING WING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SPANWISE LOCATIONS; TIME-RESOLVED; VORTICAL STRUCTURES; WAKE VELOCITY; WING CONFIGURATIONS;

WAKES;

EID: 84878567344     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4807064     Document Type: Article

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