CAnMove

As a PhD student from Bielefeld University in Germany, I collaborated with the flight lab and CAnMove at Lund University.

For my thesis I worked with the two nectar-feeding bat species and Leptonycteris yerbabuenae. Both species are leafnosed bats and very similar in their morphology, but different in size, which allows for an optimal comparison.

I wanted to get an overview of all the involved mechanism of flight: energetics, kinematics and aerodynamics. I was examining energy intake, how that energy is converted into muscle work and how those wing movements generate vortex wakes and produce the required forces for flight, lift and thrust. The used techniques involved high speed filming, SDIPV (stereo digital particle image velocimetry) and fast response respirometry.

Supervisors: York Winter, Anders Hedenström