afpt (version 1.0.0)

findMinimumPowerSpeed: Find speed for minimum power

Description

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Usage

findMinimumPowerSpeed(bird, lower, upper, ...)

Arguments

bird

bird description object (see Bird)

lower

lower speed limit (optional)

upper

upper speed limit (optional)

…

optional arguments for computeFlappingPower()

Value

powercurve object (funCalcPower evaluated for the minimum speed)

Details

This is pretty much just a call to optimize.

See Also

optimize

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Define a bird:
myBird = Bird(
  massTotal = 0.215, #  (kg) total body mass
  wingSpan = 0.67, #  (m) maximum wing span
  wingArea = 0.0652, #  (m2) maximum wing area
  type = "passerine"
)

minimumPowerSpeed.aero <- findMinimumPowerSpeed(myBird)
minimumPowerSpeed.aero[c('speed','power','strokeplane','amplitude','frequency')]
#      speed    power strokeplane amplitude frequency
# 1 8.030022 2.092976    28.14514  34.52719  5.948083
# }