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Bat Flight. “Is your mama a llama?” I asked my friend Dave . “ No, she is not,” is the answer Dave gave. “ She hangs by her feet, and she lives in a cave. I do not believe that’s how llamas behave.” “ Oh,” I said. “You are right about that. I think that your mama sounds more like a…”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Bat Flight
“Is your mama a llama?” I asked my friend Dave.
“No, she is not,” is the answer Dave gave.
“She hangs by her feet, and she lives in a cave. I do not believe that’s how llamas behave.”
“Oh,” I said. “You are right about that. I think that your mama sounds more like a…”
A very articulate animal
Kinematics of Flexible Membrane
Experiment Setup
Complex Wing Flapping
Eddy-one home? The Kelvin CirculationTheorem
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Stokes Theorem: Why we measure vorticity
Relates path integral of velocity to vorticity
Get ready for lift-off
Wake Up!
Strouhal Number
Biomimic bat wing
Physics/EngineeringBiology/Physiology
What features are being mimicked - or not?
The arm bones connects to the elbow.. (sing along now!)
Measuring lift and thrust
BAT FLIGHT AND KINEMATICS Tian, Xiaodong, et al. "Direct measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of bat
flight." Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 1.4 (2006): S10. Hubel, Tatjana Y., et al. "Wake structure and wing kinematics: the flight of the lesser
dog-faced fruit bat, Cynopterus brachyotis." The Journal of experimental biology 213.20 (2010): 3427-3440
Hardi P, “Why can airplanes fly?” http://www3.kis.uni-freiburg.de/~peter/teach/hydro/hydro05.pdf
BIOMIMIC BAT WING Bahlman, Joseph W., Sharon M. Swartz, and Kenneth S. Breuer. "Design and
characterization of a multi-articulated robotic bat wing." Bioinspiration & biomimetics 8.1 (2013): 016009.
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