Wake development behind paired wings with tip and root trailing vortices: consequences for animal flight force estimates.

Wake development behind paired wings with tip and root trailing vortices: consequences for animal flight force estimates.

Recent experiments on flapping flight in animals have shown that a variety of unrelated species shed a wake behind left and right wings consisting of both tip and root vortices. Here we present an investigation using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) of the behaviour and interaction of trailing vorti...

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Main Authors: Jan T Horstmann, Per Henningsson, Adrian L R Thomas, Richard J Bomphrey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24632825/pdf/?tool=EBI

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