Search Results - "Dickson, W.B"
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Leading-Edge Vortices Elevate Lift of Autorotating Plant Seeds
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-06-2009)“…As they descend, the autorotating seeds of maples and some other trees generate unexpectedly high lift, but how they attain this elevated performance is…”
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Turning dynamics and passive damping in flapping flight
Published in 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (01-05-2009)“…We investigated whether flapping flight has an inherent stability by analyzing the inertial and aerodynamic effects of flapping wings on body dynamics. Based…”
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