How swifts control their glide performance with morphing wings

By David Lentink, U. Müller, Eize J. Stamhuis, R. Kat, W. V. Gestel, L. Veldhuis, P. Henningsson, A. Hedenström, J. Videler, J. L. Leeuwen. Nature, 2006

363 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Jinsong Leng
2. Jian Sun
3. David Lentink
4. R. Dakin
5. Qinghua Guan
6. Dimitri A. Skandalis
7. P. Segre
8. Yanju Liu

In Computational Mechanics

1. David Lentink

Citations in the corpus

• Morphing aircraft based on smart materials and structures: A state-of-the-art review (2016, background): “Swifts control their glide performance by changing the geometry of their wings; for example, they adjust their wing sweep to suit the speed (Lentink et al., 2007).”
• The biophysics of bird flight: functional relationships integrate aerodynamics, morphology, kinematics, muscles and sensors (2015, background): “Fixed-wing preparations are useful for determining force coefficients of gliding birds (Withers 1981; Lentink et al. 2007).”