Body cross-section of the flying snake Chrysopelea paradisi

This file bundle contains the geometry of the body cross-section of a flying snake Chrysopelea paradisi, in its flying configuration. We provide the coordinates of the boundary, a gnuplot script to plot the cross-section and a PDF of the output plot. The snake geometry was used in the CFD analysis of the flying snake using the cuIBM code for incompressible Navier-Stokes. The results are part of a publication recently submitted for peer-review, of which the preprint can be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2969 The README file explains how to run the script to plot the cross-section geometry and gives reference to the other file bundles for our paper, titled "Lift and Wakes of Flying Snakes." The geometry used in this dataset and plot were obtained previously by J. J. Socha, and appeared in: "Gliding Flight in Chrysopelea: Turning a snake into a wing", J. J. Socha, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 51(6): 969–982 (2011).

本文件包包含天堂金花蛇（Chrysopelea paradisi）采用飞行构型时的身体截面几何数据。我们提供了该截面边界的坐标、用于绘制该截面的gnuplot脚本，以及输出绘图结果的PDF文件。该蛇体几何模型已被应用于天堂金花蛇飞行构型下的计算流体动力学（Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD）分析，分析过程采用cuIBM代码求解不可压缩Navier-Stokes方程。本数据集的分析结果已投稿至同行评议期刊，其预印本可通过以下链接获取：http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2969。README文件详细说明了如何运行脚本以绘制该截面几何模型，并提及了本团队题为《飞蛇的升力与尾迹》（Lift and Wakes of Flying Snakes）的论文对应的其他数据集文件包。本数据集及绘图所用的几何模型此前由J. J. 索查（J. J. Socha）获取，并发表于论文"Gliding Flight in Chrysopelea: Turning a snake into a wing"，作者为J. J. 索查，刊载于《整合与比较生物学（Integrative and Comparative Biology）》第51卷第6期，页码范围969–982，发表年份为2011年。