Sentence examples for hovering insect from inspiring English sources

The method is applied to two problems that demonstrate its utility for investigating biological locomotion: a flapping elliptical wing with hovering insect kinematics, with good agreement of forces with previous simulations and experiments; and a three-linkage 'fish' undergoing undulatory mechanics.

However, the aerodynamics of hovering insects, such as dragonflies, is still not fully understood.

Such close association of a variety of small footprints in a confined area suggests that the muddy habitat may have favoured lone foraging by young small dinosaurs on hovering insects and invertebrates in the mud and provided a possible safe haven from the large dinosaurs known in the area.

The typical angle of attack at 70% wingspan ranges from 25° to 45° in hovering insects (15° in hummingbirds).

Results for three typical insect hovering flights (hawkmoth, honeybee and fruitfly) over a wide rang of Reynolds numbers from O(102) to O(104) demonstrate its feasibility in accurately modeling and quantitatively evaluating the unsteady aerodynamic mechanisms in insect flapping flight.

Studies of fish propulsion by pectoral fins [19], frog swimming [20] and insect hovering [21] are only a few examples where the blade-element model was applied previously to study swimming and flying in animals.

They also hover for insects.

SOME hover like insects, and are not much bigger.

Biologists and engineers have long struggled to understand the hovering flight of insects, birds, and bats.

Meals are communal, with views across the river and enough weird, over-sized insects hovering around the lanterns to fill a dozen glass cabinets at the National History Museum.

The black-throated blue warbler forages actively in low vegetation, sometimes hovering or catching insects in flight.