;Contents: Hydrodynamic drag reduction due to fish slimes; Some hydrodynamical aspects of fish schooling; Flapping flight and power in birds and insects, conventional and novel mechanisms; On the mechanics of flight of small insects; Insect aerodynamics near hovering; Air flow and the flight of a Noctuid moth; On the efficiency increasing interaction of thrust producing lifting surfaces; A note on flapping flight with surging; The effect of span-wise variations in amplitude on the thrust-generating performance of a flapping thin wing; Ornithopter aerodynamic experiments.
Proceedings. Symposium on Swimming and Flying in Nature Held at California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena on July 8-12, 1974. Volume III
1974
357 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Zoology , Microbiology , Meetings , Swimming , Flight , Fishes , Animals , Insects , Birds , Aerodynamic forces , Humans , Animal locomotion
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