Publications related to Insect flight

Fluid-structure interactions of bristled wings: the trade-off between weight and drag

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Matteo Pezzulla, Yuexia Luna Lin

The smallest flying insects often have bristled wings resembling feathers or combs. We combined experiments and three-dimensional numerical simulations to investigate the trade-off between wing weight and drag generation. In experiments of bristled strips, ...

London2023

Vortex shedding from a composite hydrofoil: Experimental evidence of a novel "partial lock-in"

Mohamed Farhat, Thomas Antoine Nicolas Berger, Qin Wu, Yunqing Liu

Lock-in is of great importance in many engineering applications due to its practical implications for structural safety. The influence of composite bend-twist coupling on the wake dynamics and vortex-induced vibration around a carbon fiber composite hydrof ...

Melville2023

Not gone with the wind: Active microscale flight with highly porous bristled wings

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Yuexia Luna Lin

The finesse of sub-millimeter insect flight with comb-like bristled wings raises intriguing questions, not only on fluid-structure interactions (FSI) but also on the mechanical behavior of the underlying, highly porous structures. Farisenkov et al. charact ...

ELSEVIER2022

To tread or not to tread: comparison between water treading and conventional flapping wing kinematics

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Swathi Badala Krishna

Hovering insects are limited by their physiology and need to rotate their wings at the end of each back-and-forth motion to keep the wing's leading edge ahead of its trailing edge. The wing rotation at the end of each half-stroke pushes the leading edge vo ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Observing the Central Arctic Atmosphere and Surface with University of Colorado uncrewed aircraft systems

Julia Schmale, Radiance Flore Aurore Calmer

Over a five-month time window between March and July 2020, scientists deployed two small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS) to the central Arctic Ocean as part of legs three and four of the MOSAiC expedition. These sUAS were flown to measure the thermodynami ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Aeroelastic characterisation of a bio-inspired flapping membrane wing

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke, Esra Uksul, Jules Ange Philippe Richeux

Natural fliers like bats exploit the complex fluid-structure interaction between their flexible membrane wings and the air with great ease. Yet, replicating and scaling the balance between the structural and fluid-dynamical parameters of unsteady membrane ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Phenomenology and scaling of optimal flapping wing kinematics

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Alexander Gehrke

Biological flapping wing fliers operate efficiently and robustly in a wide range of flight conditions and are a great source of inspiration to engineers. The unsteady aerodynamics of flapping wing flight are dominated by large-scale vortical structures tha ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Effects of wing kinematics, corrugation, and clap-and-fling on aerodynamic efficiency of a hovering insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicle

Hoang Vu Phan, Khanh Nguyen

A flapping-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) operating with aerodynamically optimal wing configuration and kinematics may save energy and thus prolong flight time. In this work, we use a computational-fluid dynamic method to investigate the effects of wing k ...

ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER2021

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Insect flight

Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones

The effects of kinematics, flexibility, and planform on the vortex formation and aerodynamic performance of flapping wing flight

Fluid-structure interactions of bristled wings: the trade-off between weight and drag

Vortex shedding from a composite hydrofoil: Experimental evidence of a novel "partial lock-in"

Not gone with the wind: Active microscale flight with highly porous bristled wings

To tread or not to tread: comparison between water treading and conventional flapping wing kinematics

Observing the Central Arctic Atmosphere and Surface with University of Colorado uncrewed aircraft systems

Aeroelastic characterisation of a bio-inspired flapping membrane wing

Phenomenology and scaling of optimal flapping wing kinematics

Effects of wing kinematics, corrugation, and clap-and-fling on aerodynamic efficiency of a hovering insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicle

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The effects of kinematics, flexibility, and planform on the vortex formation and aerodynamic performance of flapping wing flight

Wing and tail morphing in birds and drones

Not gone with the wind: Active microscale flight with highly porous bristled wings

Vortex shedding from a composite hydrofoil: Experimental evidence of a novel "partial lock-in"

To tread or not to tread: comparison between water treading and conventional flapping wing kinematics

Aeroelastic characterisation of a bio-inspired flapping membrane wing

Observing the Central Arctic Atmosphere and Surface with University of Colorado uncrewed aircraft systems

Fluid-structure interactions of bristled wings: the trade-off between weight and drag

Effects of wing kinematics, corrugation, and clap-and-fling on aerodynamic efficiency of a hovering insect-inspired flapping-wing micro air vehicle

Phenomenology and scaling of optimal flapping wing kinematics