Source: https://berkeleyflightlab.org/members/victor-m-ortega-jimenez/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 20:08:14+00:00

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My research focuses on how animal fliers deal with complex environmental flows such as rain, Von Kármán streets, and dust devils. I am also interested in the trade-offs experienced by animals during wetting, and in the effects of electrostatic charges generated on flying insects and hummingbirds.
Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Sapir, N. Wolf, M., Variano, E., Dudley, R. 2014. Into turbulent air: size- dependent effects of von Kármán vortex streets on hummingbird flight kinematics and energetics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 2014018.
Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Mittal, R., Hedrick, T. L. 2014. Hawkmoth flight performance in tornado-like whirlwind vortices. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 9: 025003.
Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Dudley, R.. 2013. Spiderweb deformation induced by electrostatically charged insects. Scientific Reports 3: 2108.
Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Greeter, J. S., Mittal, R., Hedrick, T. L. 2013. Hawkmoth flight stability in turbulent vortex streets. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 4567-4579.
Ortega-Jiménez, V. M., Dudley, R. 2012. Flying in the rain: hovering performance of Anna’s Hummingbirds under varied precipitation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:3996-4002.
Ortega-Jiménez, V. M., Dudley, R. 2012. Aerial shaking performance of wet Anna’s Hummingbirds. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9:1093-1099. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0608.
Ortega-Jiménez, V. M., Álvarez-Borrego S., Arriaga-Ramírez S., Renner, M., Bridge, S. E. 2011. Maximum load-carrying during takeoff of Cassin’s Auklet and Leach’s Storm-Petrel. Waterbirds 34: 102-106. doi: 10.1675/063.034.0113.
Ortega V. M. 2013. Electrostatic sight over the insect world. The Daily Californian, July 14.
Ortega V. M. 2012. Acrobacias aéreas bajo la lluvia. Ciencia y Desarrollo. Septiembre-Octubre.
Ortega V. M. 2011. Evolucion de la locomoción animal. Ciencia (Revista de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias) 62:60-67.
Ortega, V.M. and T. Velázquez. 2010. Amores Extremos. La Jornada en la Ciencia.
Ortega, V.M and Terán B E. 2010. Concha Urquiza, entre el accidente y el suicidio. La Jornada en la Ciencia.
Ortega V.M., Arriaga R. S. y Terán B. E. 2010. La divulgación de la ciencia en México vista a través de blogs. La Jornada en la Ciencia.

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