Straight-line climbing flight aerodynamics of a fruit bat

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Viswanath, K ^a   Nagendra, K ^b   Cotter, J ^b   Frauenthal, M ^b   Tafti, D K ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; CAMBERS; FRUITS; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; WINGS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; FLAPPING MOTION; FLIGHT AERODYNAMICS; FORCE GENERATION; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; OSCILLATORY MOTION; POWER REQUIREMENT; UNSTEADY VORTICES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84897896070     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: 10897666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4864297     Document Type: Article

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