Rolling with the flow: Bumblebees flying in unsteady wakes

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 216, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 4299-4309

  Ravi, Sridhar ^a   Crall, James D ^a   Fisher, Alex ^b   Combes, Stacey A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bumblebee flight; Flight stability; Turbulence; Unsteady flows; Von Karman street

Indexed keywords

AIR; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT STABILITY; FLYING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOWS; VIDEORECORDING; VON KARMAN STREET;

BUMBLEBEE FLIGHT; FLIGHT STABILITY; TURBULENCE; UNSTEADY FLOWS; VON KARMAN STREET;

AIR MOVEMENTS; ANIMALS; BEES; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84887297962     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.090845     Document Type: Article

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