The complex aerodynamic footprint of desert locusts revealed by large-volume tomographic particle image velocimetry

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 108, 2015, Pages

  Henningsson, Per ^a   Michaelis, Dirk ^b   Nakata, Toshiyuki ^c   Schanz, Daniel ^d   Geisler, Reinhard ^d   Schröder, Andreas ^d   Bomphrey, Richard J ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LAVISION GMBH   (Germany)

^c ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerodynamics; Animal flight; Desert locust; Span efficiency; Tomographic particle image velocimetry; Wake deformation

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ANIMALS; DEFORMATION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LANDFORMS; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAKES; WINGS;

AERODYNAMIC FORCES; DESERT LOCUST; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; KELVIN- HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SPAN EFFICIENCY; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT; WAKE DEFORMATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; FLYING; FORCE; FORELIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAELIFERA; FLOW KINETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; WING;

ANIMALIA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

ANIMALS; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GRASSHOPPERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84936775058     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0119     Document Type: Article

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