afpt (version 1.1.0.4)

findMinimumPowerSpeed: Find speed for minimum power

Description

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Usage

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

Value

powercurve object (funCalcPower evaluated for the minimum speed)

Arguments

bird

bird description object (see Bird)

lower

lower speed limit (optional)

upper

upper speed limit (optional)

...

optional arguments for computeFlappingPower()

Author

Marco Klein Heerenbink

Details

This is pretty much just a call to optimize.

See Also

optimize

Examples

## 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