Hawkmoth flight performance in tornado-like whirlwind vortices

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Ortega Jimenez, Victor Manuel ^a,b   Mittal, Rajat ^c   Hedrick, Tyson L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Manduca sexta; tornado; turbulence; vortex chamber; whirlwind

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; DRAG REDUCTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; TORNADOES; TURBULENCE;

FLAPPING FREQUENCY; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; HOVERING FLIGHTS; MANDUCA SEXTA; STANDARD DEVIATION; TORNADO-LIKE VORTEX; VORTEX CHAMBERS; WHIRLWIND;

VORTEX FLOW;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLYING; FORELIMB; MALE; MANDUCA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORNADO; WIND;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; MANDUCA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORNADOES; WIND; WING;

EID: 84901433364     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/9/2/025003     Document Type: Article

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