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September 30 2012
Vol. 82 No. 1-2 (2012)
https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.121

Considerations on dynamic soaring

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Dynamic soaring, wind gradient, range.
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Emanuele Luigi De Angelis
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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.

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Considerations on dynamic soaring. (2012). Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 82(1-2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2012.121

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