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Wing Kinematics in a Hovering Dronefly Minimize Power Expenditure

When an insect hovers or performs constant-speed flight, its wings flap at certain amplitude, frequency, angle of attack, etc., and the flight is balanced (vertical force equals to the weight, and horizontal force and pitch moment are zero). It is possible that when some other sets of values of wing...

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Autores principales: Wu, J. H., Sun, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5443599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25347844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieu021