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A local doctoral student has turned his penchant for pelican watching into a mathematical model of energy use that has possibilities beyond the waves. It might even help drones fly better.
Ian Stokes, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at UC San Diego, developed a theoretical model for how pelicans use physics to stay in flight and recently published his findings as the lead author of a paper titled “Wave-slope soaring of the brown pelican.”
Movement Ecology and written with help from Stokes’ advisor, Drew Lucas of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla,
details how pelicans use energy generated by the ocean waves to conserve their own flapping less and gliding more.
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