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Measured and calculated values of MeD1 and TiDA1 hairs maximum angular displacement at resonance frequency, yres, and of the resonance frequency, fres(y), are respectively plotted as a function of hair length in Figs. 11 and 12. Again, the amplitude of velocity of the oscillating air flow FIG. 11 Measured and calculated values of filiform hair maximum angular displacement at resonance frequency, yres, plotted as a function of hair length, L. Lines with uncertainty bars represent linear fits to the experimental data of Barth et al.

Salei L (m) G. 631 Note: The cricket hair entry for R in this table was the value used in Humphrey et al. (2003) even though it was incorrectly printed on page 137 of that reference. in air and I m ) I ffi I r for hairs in water; (ii) RDRm for both hairs in air and water; (iii) because of the L3 dependence, long hairs have much larger values of Im and Rm than short hairs; (iv) Im varies with frequency over a much larger range (10–200 Hz) than Rm. Together with a pair of initial boundary conditions, Eq.

The remaining relations, while in qualitative agreement with their corresponding relations in Table 1 of Humphrey et al. 2 HAIR SUSPENSION: TORSIONAL RESTORING CONSTANT S AND DAMPING CONSTANT R The calculation of hair motion by any of the three procedures outlined earlier (numerical, physically exact, physically approximate) requires the 5 The most notable difference between the relations in Table 4 of this work and Table 1 of Humphrey et al. (2001) is the complete absence of the fluid medium density, r, in Table 4.

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