Smoke visualization of free-flying bumblebees indicates independent leading-edge vortices on each wing pair
It has been known for a century that quasisteady attached flows are insufficient to explain aerodynamic force production in bumblebees and many other insects. Most recent studies of the unsteady, separated-flow aerodynamics of insect flight have used physical, analytical or numerical modeling based...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2010
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