スギモト タケシ   Sugimoto Takeshi
  杉本 剛
   所属   神奈川大学  情報学部 システム数理学科
    神奈川大学大学院  工学研究科 工学専攻(情報システム創成領域)
   職種   教授
言語種別 日本語
発行・発表の年月 2012/04
形態種別 その他
標題 Edmond Halley's Account of Bird Flight
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Abstract Book of Biological Flow: A Conference to Celebrate 70th Birthday of Timothy J. Pedley
巻・号・頁 35頁
概要 Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) unified hydrostatics and dynamic theory of fluids by publishing 'Hydrodynamica (1738),' in which there appears Bernoulli's Theorem. Almost half a century before this publication Edmond Halley (1656-1742) had read a series of unpublished papers at the Royal Society meetings and tried to account for physics behind bird flight in a modern sense for the first time in the history of sciences. Halley proposed a method to estimate the dynamic pressure by use of the idea of 'hydraulic head.' He extended this idea to estimate the wing-beat of the pigeon. Although he made a mistake in his computation, we validate his method by the corrected procedure.