Chapters in Books:
*undergraduate co-authors

Swartz, S. M., J. Iriarte-Díaz, D. K. Riskin, and K S. Breuer.  2012.  A bird? a plane? No, it’s a bat: an introduction to the biomechanics of bat flight. In Evolutionary History of Bats: Fossils, Molecules and Morphology
(G. Gunnell and N. B. Simmons, eds). pp. 317-352. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Albertani R, T. Y. Hubel, S. M. Swartz, K. S. Breuer, and J. Evers. 2011. In-flight wing-membrane strain measurements on bats. In: Proulx, T. (ed) Experimental and Applied Mechanics. pp. 437-455. Springer,
New York.

Dumont, E. L. and S. M. Swartz.  2009.  Biomechanical approaches and ecological research.  In Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats (T. H. Kunz, ed.) pp. 436-458. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.

Swartz, S. M., Bishop, K. L., and Ismael-Aguirre, M. F.*  2005. Bat flight aerodynamics: new insights from three-dimensional kinematic analysis.  In Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats (Z. Akbar, G. F. McCracken, and T. H. Kunz, eds) pp. 110-121. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Swartz, S. M., P. Freeman, and E. Stockwell. 2003.  Ecomorphology. in Bat Ecology. (T. H. Kunz, ed.)
pp. 257-300. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

Swartz. S. M.  1998.  Skin and bones: the mechanical properties of bat wing tissues. in Bats: Phylogeny, Morphology, Echolocation, and Conservation Biology. (T. H. Kunz and P. A. Racey, eds.) Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.

Swartz, S. M.  1993.  The biomechanics of primate limbs. in Postcranial Adaptation in Nonhuman Primates (D. L. Gebo, ed.) pp. 542. Northern Illinois University Press, De Kalb, IL.

Swartz, S. M. and A. A. Biewener.  1992.  Shape and scaling. in Biomechanics: A Practical Approach.
Vol. 2. Structures.  (A. A. Biewener, ed.).  pp. 20-43. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Swartz, H. M. and S. M. Swartz.  1983  Biochemical and Biophysical Applications of Electron Spin Resonance. in Methods of Biochemical Analysis, volume 29, D. Glick, ed. pp. 207-323. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.

 

Refereed Journal Articles:
*undergraduate co-authors

Bahlman, J. W., D. K. Riskin, K. S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz. 2013. Glide performance and aerodynamics of non-equilibrium glides in northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10:20120794. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0794

Curet, O.M., S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2013. An aeroelastic instability provides a possible basis for the transition from gliding to flapping flight. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10:20120940. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0940

Bahlman, J. W., S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2013. Design and characterization of a multi-articulated robotic bat wing. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 8: 016009. doi:10.1088/1748-3182/8/1/016009

Iriarte-Díaz, J., Riskin, D. K., Breuer, K. S. and Swartz, S. M. 2012. Kinematic plasticity during flight in fruit bats: individual variability in response to loading. PLoS One 7:e36665. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036665

Hubel, T. Y., N. I. Hristov, S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2012.  Changes in kinematics and aerodynamics over a range of speeds in Tadarida brasiliensis, the Brazilian free-tailed bat. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 9:1120-1130. doi:10.1098/rsif.2011.0838

Riskin, D. K., A. J. Bergou, K. S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz. 2012. Upstroke wing flexion and the inertial cost of bat flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 279:2945-2950. doi: 0.1098/rspb.2012.0346

Bergou, A. J., S. M. Swartz, K. S. Breuer, and G. Taubin. 2011. 3D Reconstruction of bat flight kinematics from sparse multiple views. IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Theory. doi:10.1109/ICCVW.2011.6130443

Willis, D. J., J. W. Bahlman, K. S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz.  2011. Energetically optimal short range gliding trajectories for gliding animals. AIAA Journal 49:2650-2657.

Iriarte-Díaz, J., D. K. Riskin, D. J. Willis, K S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz. 2011. Whole-body kinematics of a fruit bat reveal the influence of wing inertia on body accelerations. Journal of Experimental Biology 214:1546-1553. doi:10.1242/jeb.037804

MacAyeal, L. C.*, D. K. Riskin, S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer.  2011. Vertical flight performance and load carrying in lesser dog-faced fruit bats (Cynopterus brachyotis). Journal of Experimental Biology
214:786-793. doi:10.1242/jeb.050195

Riskin, D. K., J. Iriarte- Díaz, K. M. Middleton, K. S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz. 2010. The effect of body size on the wing movements of pteropodid bats, with insights into thrust and lift production. Journal of Experimental Biology 213:4110-4122. doi: 10.1242/jeb.043091

Hubel, T. Y., D. K. Riskin, S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2010.  Wake structure and wing kinematics: the flight of the lesser dog-faced fruit bat, Cynopterus brachyotis. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 3427-3440. doi:10.1242/jeb.043257

Chen, J., D. K. Riskin, T. Y. Hubel, D. J. Willis, A. Song, H. Liu, K. S. Breuer, S. M. Swartz, and D. H. Laidlaw. 2010. Exploration of bat wing morphology through a strip method and visualization. Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH).

Middleton, K. M., B. D. Goldstein*, P. R. Guduru, J. F. Waters, S. A. Kelly, S. M. Swartz and T. Garland, Jr.  2010.  Variation in within-bone stiffness measured by nanoindentation in mice bred for high levels of voluntary wheel running.  Journal of Anatomy 216:121-131.

Chen, J., M. Kostandov, I. V. Pivkin, D. K. Riskin, S. M. Swartz, and D. H. Laidlaw.  2009. Visual analysis of dimensionality reduction in an interactive virtual environment for exploring bat flight kinematics.  Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE-ICAT-EUROVR.

Riskin, D. K., J. W. Bahlman, T. Y. Hubel, J. M. Ratcliffe, T. H. Kunz, and S. M. Swartz. 2009. Bats go head-under-heels: The biomechanics of landing on a ceiling. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212:945-953.

Hubel, T. Y., N. I. Hristov, S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2009. Time-resolved wake structure and kinematics of bat flight. Experiments in Fluids 46:933-943 DOI 10.1007/s00348-009-0624-7

Keefe, D. F., D. Acevedo, D., J. Miles, F. Drury, S. M. Swartz, and D. H. Laidlaw. 2008. Scientific sketching for collaborative VR visualization design. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 14, 835-847.

Waldman, R. M., A. Song, D. K. Riskin, S. M. Swartz, and K. S. Breuer. 2008. Aerodynamic behavior of compliant membranes as related to bat flight. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal: AIAA no. 2008-3716.

Riskin, D. K., D. J. Willis, T. L. Hedrick, J. Iriarte-Díaz, M. Kostandov, J. Chen, D. H. Laidlaw, K. S. Breuer, and S. M. Swartz. 2008. Quantifying the complexity of bat wing kinematics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 254: 604–615. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.06.011

Iriarte-Díaz, J. and S. M. Swartz. 2008. Kinematics of slow turn maneuvering in the fruit bat Cynopterus brachyotis. Journal of Experimental Biology 211, 3478-3489.

Kunz, T. H., S. A. Gauthreaux, Jr, N. I. Hristov, J. W. Horn, G. Jones, E. K. V. Kalko, R. P. Larkin, G. F. McCracken, S. M. Swartz, R. B. Srygley, R. Dudley, J. K. Westbrook, and M. Wikelski.  2008.  Aeroecology: probing and modeling the aerosphere. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 8: 1-11.

Swartz, S. M. D. J. Willis, and K. S. Breuer. 2008.  Aeromechanics in aeroecology: Flight biology in the aerosphere.  Integrative and Comparative Biology, 48: 85-98. doi: 10.1093/icb/icn054

Song, A, X. Tian, E. Israeli*, R. Galvao*, Bishop, S. Swartz, and Breuer, K. 2008.  Aeromechanics of membrane wings with implications for animal flight.   AIAA Journal 46:2096-2196. doi: 10.2514/1.36694

Middleton, K.M., C.E. Shubin*, D.C. Moore, T. Garland, Jr., P.A. Carter, and S.M. Swartz. 2008. The relative importance of genetics and phenotypic plasticity in dictating bone morphology and mechanics in aged mice: Evidence from an artificial selection experiment. Zoology 111: 135-147.

Swartz, S. M. and Middleton, K. M. 2008.  Biomechanics of the bat limb skeleton: scaling, material properties and mechanics. Cells Tissues Organs, 187: 59-84. doi: 10.1159/000109964.

Willis, D. J., E. Israeli, P. Persson, M. Drela, and J. Peraire, S. M. Swartz and K. S. Breuer.  2007. A computational framework for fluid structure interaction in biologically inspired flapping flight. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Applied Aerodynamics 25: 3803-3809.

Willis, D. J., M. Kostandov, D. K. Riskin, J. Peraire, D. H. Laidlaw, S. M. Swartz, K. S. Breuer. 2007.  Modeling the flight of a bat: First Place, Informational Graphics, International Visualization Competition.  Science 317:1860. doi: 10.1126/science.1133598

Swartz, S. M., J. Iriarte-Díaz, D. K. Riskin, A. Song, X. Tian, D. J. Willis, and K.S. Breuer. 2007.  Wing structure and the aerodynamic basis of flight in bats. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences 45: 22-26.

Chen, J., A. Forsberg, S. M. Swartz, and D. H. Laidlaw. Interactive multiple scale small multiples. IEEE Visualization 2007 Poster Compendium, November 2007.

Kostandov, M., I. Pivkin, K. Breuer, S. M. Swartz, and D. H. Laidlaw. 2006. proper orthogonal decomposition and particle image velocimetry in bat flight.  IEEE Visualization 2006 Poster Compendium.

Tian, X., Iriarte-Díaz, J, Middleton, K, Galvao*, R, Israeli*, E, Roemer*, A, Sullivan*, A, Song, S. M. Swartz and K. S. Breuer.  2006. Direct measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of bat flight. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. 1:10-18.

Pivkin, I.,  E. Hueso, R. Weinstein*, D. H. Laidlaw, S. Swartz, and G. Karniadakis. 2005.  Simulation and Visualization of Air Flow Around Bat Wings During Flight. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science, pages 689-694.

Sobel, J. S., A. S. Forsberg, D H. Laidlaw, R. C. Zeleznik, D. F. Keefe, I. Pivkin,G. E. Karniadakis, S. M. Swartz, and P. Richardson.  2004.  Particle Flurries: Synoptic 3D Pulsatile Flow Visualization.  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications April/May: 2-11.

Hueso, E., I. V. Pivkin, S. M. Swartz, D. H. Laidlaw, G. Karniadakis, and K. S. Breuer. 2004. Visualization of Vortices in Simulated Airflow around Bat Wings During Flight. IEEE Visualization 2004 Poster Compendium, October 2004.

Watts, P., E. J. Mitchell*, and S. M. Swartz.  2001.  A computational model for estimating mechanics of horizontal flapping flight in bats.  Model description and comparison with experimental results.  Journal of Experimental Biology. 204: 2873-2898.

Swartz, S. M., A. Parker*, and C. Huo*.  1997.  Theoretical and empirical scaling patterns and topological homology in bone trabeculae.  Journal of Experimental Biology, 201:573-590.

Swartz, S. M.  1997.  Allometric patterning in the limb skeleton of bats: Implications for the mechanics and energetics of powered flight.  Journal of Morphology, 234:277-294.

Papadimitriou, H. M. *, S. M. Swartz, and T. H. Kunz.  1996.  Ontogenetic and anatomic variation in mineralization of the wing skeleton of the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis.  Journal of Zoology, London, 240:411-426.

Swartz, S. M., M. D. Groves*, H. D. Kim* and W. R. Walsh.  1996.  Mechanical properties of bat wing membrane skin: aerodynamic and mechanical functions.  Journal of Zoology, London, 239:357-378.

Halgrimmsson, B.* and S. M. Swartz.  1995.  Morphological adaptation in the hylobatid ulna: cross-sectional geometry and skeletal loading.  Journal of Morphology 224:111-123.

Swartz, S. M., M. B. Bennett, and D. R. Carrier.  1992.  Wing bone stresses in free flying bats and the evolution of skeletal design for flight.  Nature 359:726-729.

Anton, S. C*., C. R. Jaslow and S. M. Swartz.  1992.  Sutural complexity in artificially deformed human (Homo sapiens) crania.  Journal of Morphology 214:321-322.

Bertram, J. E. A. and S. M. Swartz.  1991.  The “Law of bone transformation”: A case of crying Wolff? Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 22(3):245-273.

Swartz, S. M.  1991.  Strain analysis as a tool for functional morphology. American Zoologist 31(4):655-669.

Swartz, S. M.  1990.  Pendular mechanics and the kinematics and energetics of brachiating locomotion.  International Journal of Primatology 10(5):387-418.

Swartz, S. M.  1990.  Curvature of the limb bones of anthropoid primates: overall allometric patterns and specializations in suspensory species.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 83(4):477-498.

Swartz, S. M.  1989.  The functional morphology of weight bearing:  limb joint surface area allometry in anthropoid primates.  Journal of Zoology, London 218:441-460.

Swartz, S. M., A. A. Biewener, and J. E. A. Bertram.  1989.  Telemetered in vivo strain analysis of locomotor mechanics of brachiating gibbons.  Nature 342:270-272.

Swartz, S. M.  1987.  Skeletal biomechanics and suspensory locomotion: preliminary results of in vivo bone strain analysis of brachiating gibbons.  Proceedings of the American Society of Biomechanics 3:151-153.

Biewener, A. A., S. M. Swartz and J. E. A. Bertram.  1986. Bone modeling during growth:  dynamic strain equilibrium in the chick tibia.  Calcified Tissue International 39:390-395.

 

Non-refereed Journal Articles:

Rachel Weinstein*, Igor Pivkin, Sharon Swartz, David H. Laidlaw, George Karniadakis, and K. Breuer. Simulation and visualization of air flow around bat wings during flight. Technical Report CS-02-16, Brown University Computer Science Department, August 2002.