Aerodynamics of flapping flight with application to insects.

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• Publication year

  1951

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  1951-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  PMID 14850630
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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