More than a million insects and approximately 11,000 vertebrates utilize flapping wings to
fly. However, flapping flight has only been studied in a few of these species, so many …

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

Insect wings are complex structures that deform dramatically in flight. We analyzed the
aerodynamic consequences of wing deformation in locusts using a three-dimensional …

Three-dimensional flows over impulsively translated low-aspect-ratio flat plates are
investigated for Reynolds numbers of 300 and 500, with a focus on the unsteady vortex …

Effects of chordwise, spanwise, and isotropic flexibility on the force generation and
propulsive efficiency of flapping wings are elucidated. For a moving body immersed in …

This expository review is devoted to fish swimming and bird/insect flight.(a) The simple
waving motion of an elongated flexible ribbon plate of constant width propagating a wave …

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 …

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 …

The impact of Strouhal number St (= 0.1–1.0), Reynolds number Re (= 50–2000) and
dimensionless wavelength λ (= 0.5–2.0) on the hydrodynamic performance of a travelling …

Challenges for the controlled flight of a robotic insect are due to the inherent instability of the
system, complex fluid–structure interactions, and the general lack of a complete system …