Tools for Modelling of Animal Flight Performance

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Documentation for package ‘afpt’ version 1.1.0.4

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

Help Pages

air2ground	Compute groundspeed
altitude2density	Compute density in International Standard Atmopshere
amplitude	Flapping flight optimal amplitude
Bird	Bird description
Bird.default	Bird description
chem2mech	Convert between mechanical and chemical power
climbing_birds	Climbing birds
computeAvailablePower	Compute available power
computeBodyFrontalArea	Body frontal area from scaling relation
computeChemicalPower	Convert mechanical power to chemical power
computeChemicalPower.numeric	Convert mechanical power to chemical power
computeChemicalPower.power.mechanical	Convert mechanical power to chemical power
computeFlappingPower	Calculate aerodynamic power flapping flight
computeFlightPerformance	Compute characteristics of a power curve
fD.ind	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
fD.pro0	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
fD.pro2	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
findMaximumClimbRate	Find maximum climb rate
findMaximumPowerSpeed	Finds speed for which power required equals maximum available power
findMaximumRangeSpeed	Find maximum range speed
findMinimumPowerSpeed	Find speed for minimum power
findMinimumTimeSpeed	Find speed for migration time minimization
fP.ind	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
fP.pro0	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
fP.pro2	Coefficient for thrust dependency of drag and power factors
mech2chem	Convert between mechanical and chemical power
reducedFrequency	Function to compute reduced frequency