There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-
blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only …

Insects can hover, fly forward, climb, and descend with ease while demonstrating amazing
stability, and they can also maneuver in impressive ways as no other organisms can. Is their …

Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …

Neuromechanics seeks to understand how muscles, sense organs, motor pattern
generators, and brain interact to produce coordinated movement, not only in complex terrain …

We present a fluid–structure interactions (FSI) model of insect flapping flight with flexible
wings. This FSI-based model is established by loosely coupling a finite element method …

Flying insects have evolved sophisticated sensory–motor systems, and here we argue that
such systems are used to keep upright against intrinsic flight instabilities. We describe a …

Control theory arose from a need to control synthetic systems. From regulating steam
engines to tuning radios to devices capable of autonomous movement, it provided a formal …

An improved quasi-steady aerodynamic model for flapping wings in hover has been
developed. The purpose of this model is to yield rapid predictions of lift generation and …

Airfoil is the basic structure in the field of fluid machinery and is widely used in aerospace,
petrochemical, and hydraulic machinery. In this study, three nonbionic airfoils (S down, S …

The aerodynamics of hovering flight in a hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) are examined using a
computational modelling approach which combines a low-fidelity blade-element model with …