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SUBMITTER: Heerenbrink MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4985036 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heerenbrink M Klein MK Johansson L C LC Hedenström A A
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 20150501 2177
Animal flight performance has been studied using models developed for man-made aircraft. For an aeroplane with fixed wings, the energetic cost as a function of flight speed can be expressed in terms of weight, wing span, wing area and body area, where more details are included in proportionality coefficients. Flying animals flap their wings to produce thrust. Adopting the fixed wing flight model implicitly incorporates the effects of wing flapping in the coefficients. However, in practice, these ...[more]