Recent progress in flap** wing aerodynamics and aeroelasticity

W Shyy, H Aono, SK Chimakurthi, P Trizila… - Progress in Aerospace …, 2010 - Elsevier
Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information
gathering capabilities in areas such as environmental monitoring and homeland security …

Immersed methods for fluid–structure interaction

BE Griffith, NA Patankar - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Fluid–structure interaction is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all biological scales.
Immersed methods provide mathematical and computational frameworks for modeling fluid …

[BOOK][B] Insect physiology and biochemistry

JL Nation Sr - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Employing the clear, student-friendly style that made previous editions so popular, Insect
Physiology and Biochemistry, Fourth Edition presents an engaging and authoritative guide …
[Free GPT-4]
W Shyy, H Aono, C Kang, H Liu - 2013 - books.google.com
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 …

Colloquium: Miniature insect flight

M Sun - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Many of the existing winged-insect species are extremely small (wing length≈ 0.3–4 mm);
they are referred to as miniature insects. Yet, until recently much of our knowledge about the …

It's not a bug, it's a feature: functional materials in insects

TBH Schroeder, J Houghtaling, BD Wilts… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a
taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives …

Near-and far-field aerodynamics in insect hovering flight: an integrated computational study

H Aono, F Liang, H Liu - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2008 - journals.biologists.com
We present the first integrative computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of near-and far-
field aerodynamics in insect hovering flight using a biology-inspired, dynamic flight …

Influence of flexibility on the aerodynamic performance of a hovering wing

M Vanella, QV Nguyen, WL Chan - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The tailless flap**-wing micro air vehicle (FW-MAV) is one of the most challenging
problems in flap**-wing design due to its lack of tail for inherent flight stability. It must be …