Leading edge vortices in lesser long-nosed bats occurring at slow but not fast flight speeds

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Muijres, Florian T ^a,b   Christoffer Johansson, L ^a   Winter, York ^c   Hedenström, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

aerodynamics; bat flight; control; delayed stall; leading edge vortex

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC STALLING; AERODYNAMICS; ANIMALS; CONTROL; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LIFT; SPEED; WINGS;

BAT FLIGHT; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONTROL CHALLENGES; DELAYED STALL; FLIGHT EFFICIENCY; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; POTENTIAL CONTROL;

VORTEX FLOW;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMAL; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLOW KINETICS; FLYING; FORELIMB; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS;

AIRCRAFT; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CHIROPTERA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHYSICAL EXERTION; RHEOLOGY; ROBOTICS; WING;

EID: 84901425521     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/9/2/025006     Document Type: Article

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