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Flight, Animal

Known as: Animal Flights, Animal flight, Flights, Animal 
The use of wings or wing-like appendages to remain aloft and move through the air.
National Institutes of Health

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2017
2017
High-Lift Mechanisms of a Heaving Flat Plate
Flapping animal flight is often modeled as a combined pitching and heaving motion in order to investigate the unsteady flow… 
2013
2013
Volumetric visualization of the near- and far-field wake in flapping wings
The flapping wings of flying animals create complex vortex wake structure; understanding its spatial and temporal distribution is… 
2012
2012
Lab-animal flights squeezed
Two biggest cargo carriers affirm that they will not ship mammals and non-human primates, as activist pressure mounts to stop… 
2010
2010
A Search for Optimal Wing Strokes in Flapping Flight: Can Engineers Improve Upon Nature?
Computational modeling is used to explore the efficiency of hovering flight in a hawkmoth ( Manduca Sexta ). While flying insects… 
2010
2010
Aerodynamic damping during body translation in animal flight: modeling and experimental results of flapping counter force (FCF)
2009
2009
Flapping counter torque (FCT) in animal flight: Experimental results and mathematical models
Review
2005
Review
2005
Control and Regulatory Mechanisms Associated with Thermogenesis in Flying Insects and Birds
Most insects and birds are able to fly. The chitin made exoskeleton of insects poses them several constraints, and this is one… 
2002
2002
Wing flexibility and design for animal flight
2002
2002
Animalopters-towards a new dimension of flight mechanics
Abstract Recently, it has been recognised that flapping wing propulsion can be more efficient than conventional propellers if… 
Review
1977
Review
1977
A review of animal flight experiments
Extensive experience with biologic systems was obtained with a variety of vertebrate species over the past 18 years. Subhuman… 
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