Considerations on dynamic soaring

Emanuele Luigi De Angelis; Fabrizio Giulietti; Fabio Perco

doi:10.4081/rio.2012.121

Considerations on dynamic soaring

https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.121

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Vol. 82 No. 1-2 (2012)

Submitted: 3 October 2014
Accepted: 3 October 2014

Published: 30 September 2012

Dynamic soaring, wind gradient, range.

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Emanuele Luigi De Angelis
rio@sisn.pagepress.org
II Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Bologna, Forlì, Italy.
Fabrizio Giulietti II Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Bologna, Forlì, Italy.
Fabio Perco Stazione Biologica Isola Cona, Riserva Naturale Foce Isonzo, Staranzano (GO), Italy.

This paper presents an analytical treatment of dynamic soaring, a behaviour that certain sea birds use to extract energy from wind gradient. Theoretical modeling and results of numerical simulations, based on a two-degrees-of-freedom point mass model, are presented.

De Angelis, E. L., Giulietti, F., & Perco, F. (2012). Considerations on dynamic soaring. Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 82(1-2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.121