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Sharon M. Swartz
Researcher at Brown University
Publications - 113
Citations - 4515
Sharon M. Swartz is an academic researcher from Brown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wing & Flapping. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 106 publications receiving 4011 citations. Previous affiliations of Sharon M. Swartz include Northwestern University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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The 'law of bone transformation': a case of crying Wolff?
TL;DR: The basis of the work was Wolff's general theory of bone transformation: Every change in the function of a bone is followed by certain definite changes in the internal structure and external conformation in accordance with mathematical laws.
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Aeromechanics of Membrane Wings with Implications for Animal Flight
Arnold Song,Xiaodong Tian,Emily Israeli,Ricardo Galvao,Kristin Bishop,Sharon M. Swartz,Kenneth S. Breuer +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model for membrane camber due to aerodynamic loading is presented, indicating that the appropriate non-dimensional parameter describing the problem is a Weber number that compares the aerodynamic load to the membrane elasticity.
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Quantifying the complexity of bat wing kinematics.
Daniel K. Riskin,David J. Willis,Jose Iriarte-Diaz,Tyson L. Hedrick,Mykhaylo Kostandov,Jian Chen,David H. Laidlaw,Kenneth S. Breuer,Sharon M. Swartz +8 more
TL;DR: This work describes an application of proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) for assigning importances to kinematic variables, using dimensional complexity as a metric, and uncovers three groups of joints that move together during flight by using POD to quantify correlations of motion.
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Direct measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of bat flight.
Xiaodong Tian,Jose Iriarte-Diaz,Kevin M. Middleton,Ricardo Galvao,Emily Israeli,Abigail Roemer,Allyce Sullivan,Arnold Song,Sharon M. Swartz,Kenneth S. Breuer +9 more
TL;DR: Experimental measurements and analysis of the flight of bats are presented, including kinematic analysis of high-speed stereo videography of straight and turning flight, and measurements of the wake velocity field behind the bat, which suggests a 'cartoon' of thewake structure during the entire wing beat cycle.
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Wing bone stresses in free flying bats and the evolution of skeletal design for flight
TL;DR: The data demonstrate that torsion and shear are unique and crucial features of skeletal biomechanics during flight, and suggest that the evolution of skeletal design in bats and other flying vertebrates may be driven by the need to resist these loads.