The wake of hovering flight in bats

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 109, 2015, Pages

  Håkansson, Jonas ^a   Hedenström, Anders ^a   Winter, York ^b   Johansson, L Christoffer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerodynamic efficiency; Bat; Hovering; Leptonycteris yerbabuenae; Wake vortices

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DISKS; AERODYNAMICS; FEEDING; LIFT; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; BAT; HOVERING; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE; WAKE VORTEX;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY CONVERSION; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SURFACE AREA; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; LEPTONYCTERIS YERBABUENAE;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84940198502     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0357     Document Type: Article

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