Journal article
Unconventional lift-generating mechanisms in free-flying butterflies.
- Abstract:
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Flying insects generate forces that are too large to be accounted for by conventional steady-state aerodynamics. To investigate these mechanisms of force generation, we trained red admiral butterflies, Vanessa atalanta, to fly freely to and from artificial flowers in a wind tunnel, and used high-resolution, smoke-wire flow visualizations to obtain qualitative, high-speed digital images of the air flow around their wings. The images show that free-flying butterflies use a variety of unconventi...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Nature
- Volume:
- 420
- Issue:
- 6916
- Pages:
- 660-664
- Publication date:
- 2002-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
- Source identifiers:
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164995
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:164995
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- pubs:164995
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- 2013-11-16
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- 2002
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