Flight speed is positively correlated with body size in animals. However, miniature
featherwing beetles can fly at speeds and accelerations of insects three times their size …

The power exchange between fluid and structure plays a significant role in the force
production and flight efficiency of flap** wings in insects and artificial flyers. This work …

Insect wings are hybrid structures that are typically composed of veins and solid
membranes. In some of the smallest flying insects, however, the wing membrane is replaced …

Recent exploration in insect-inspired robotics has generated considerable interest. Among
insects navigating at low Reynolds numbers, mosquitoes exhibit distinct flight …

We present the derivation, implementation, and analysis of a multiresolution adaptive grid
framework for numerical simulations on octree-based three-dimensional block-structured …

The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is a powerful classical tool in fluid mechanics
used, for instance, for model reduction and extraction of coherent flow features. However, its …

We present a new methodology for decomposing flows with multiple transports that further
extends the shifted proper orthogonal decomposition (sPOD). The sPOD tries to …

Embedding geometries in structured grids allows a simple treatment of complex objects in
fluid simulations. Various methods for embedding geometries are available. The commonly …

Adaptive Galerkin numerical schemes integrate time-dependent partial differential equations
with a finite number of basis functions, and a subset of them is selected at each time step …

Adaptive Galerkin methods for time-dependent partial differential equations are studied and
shown to be dissipative. The adaptation implies that the subset of the selected basis function …