The fluid dynamics of flapping foils are reviewed in this article. A very wide range of
researches are conducted for the two-dimensional flapping foil which has a relatively simple …

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

This is an ideal book for graduate students and researchers interested in the aerodynamics,
structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats and insects, as well as of micro …

Here, we present a detailed analysis of the deforming wing kinematics of free-flying
hoverflies (Eristalis tenax, Linnaeus) during hovering flight. We used four high-speed digital …

This paper reports a fundamental investigation on the aerodynamics of two-dimensional
flapping wings in tandem configuration in forward flight. Of particular interest are the effects …

Unsteady inviscid flow models of wings and airfoils have been developed to study the
aerodynamics of natural and man-made flyers. Vortex methods have been extensively …

This paper is motivated by the works of Dickinson et al.(Science 284: 1954–1960, 1999) and
Sun and Tang (J Exp Biol 205: 55–70, 2002) which provided two different perspectives on …

Insect wings are subjected to fluid, inertia and gravitational forces during flapping flight.
Owing to their limited rigidity, they bent under the influence of these forces. Numerical study …

The passion in developing flapping wing micro air vehicles has attracted considerable
attention in the study of unsteady aerodynamics of a flapping wing [1–3]. To enable sharing …

This paper reports the results of combined experimental and numerical studies on the
ground effect on a pair of three-dimensional (3D) hovering wings. Parameters investigated …