ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Quantifying the dynamic wing morphing of hovering hummingbird.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The spatiotemporal richness of hummingbird wing deformations.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Wing Kinematics and Unsteady Aerodynamics of a Hummingbird Pure Yawing Maneuver.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Avian surface reconstruction in free flight with application to flight stability analysis of a barn owl and peregrine falcon.The Journal of experimental biology · 2019Article
- Canonical description of wing kinematics and dynamics for a straight flying insectivorous bat (Hipposideros pratti).PloS one · 2019Article
- Hovering hummingbird wing aerodynamics during the annual cycle. II. Implications of wing feather moult.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Animal wings are lightweight and flexible; hence, during flapping flight their shapes change. It has been known that such dynamic wing morphing reduces aerodynamic cost in insects, but the consequences in vertebrate flyers, particularly birds, are not well understood. We have developed a method to reconstruct a three-dimensional wing model of a bird from the wing outline and the feather shafts (rachides). The morphological and kinematic parameters can be obtained using the wing model, and the numerical or mechanical simulations may also be carried out. To test the effectiveness of the method, we recorded the hovering flight of a hummingbird (
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