Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

Humans' initial desire for flight stems from the imitation of flying creatures in nature. The
excellent flight performance of flying animals will inevitably become a source of inspiration …

Experimental studies of the flow topology, leading-edge vortex dynamics and unsteady force
produced by pitching and plunging flat-plate aerofoils in forward flight at Reynolds numbers …

Experiments on leading-edge vortex (LEV) growth and detachment from a plunging profile
have been conducted in a free-surface water tunnel. Direct-force and velocity-field …

The ability to accurately predict the forces on an aerofoil in real-time when large flow
variations occur is important for a wide range of applications such as, for example, for …

Experiments with a pitching and plunging airfoil are conducted in order to investigate the
mechanisms responsible for the formation and detachment of leading edge vortices (LEVs) …

We investigate experimentally the effect of aspect ratio () on the time-varying, three-
dimensional flow structure of flat-plate wings rotating from rest at 45° angle of attack. Plates …

The flow topology and leading-edge vortex (LEV) formation and detachment mechanism of a
pitching and plunging flat plate are experimentally investigated in this study. Focus is placed …

Added mass characterises the additional force required to accelerate a body when
immersed in an ideal fluid. It originates from an asymmetric change to the surrounding …

We report on the dynamics of the formation and growth of the leading-edge vortex and the
corresponding unsteady aerodynamic torque induced by large-scale flow-induced …