Closed-loop turbulence control is a critical enabler of aerodynamic drag reduction, lift
increase, mixing enhancement, and noise reduction. Current and future applications have …

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

Insects, birds, and bats that power and control flight by flap** their wings perform excellent
flight stability and maneuverability by rapidly and continuously varying their wing motions …

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 …

A time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV) system has been developed at the
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, with long-recording-time capabilities …

Bats evolved the ability of powered flight more than 50 million years ago. The modern bat is
an efficient flyer and recent research on bat flight has revealed many intriguing facts. By …

There are many challenges to measuring power input and force output from a flap**
vertebrate. Animals can vary a multitude of kinematic parameters simultaneously, and …

We investigated the detailed kinematics and wake structure of lesser dog-faced fruit bats
(Cynopterus brachyotis) flying in a wind tunnel. High speed recordings of the kinematics …

The remarkable maneuverability of flying animals results from precise movements of their
highly specialized wings. Bats have evolved an impressive capacity to control their flight, in …

An experimental study was conducted to assess the aerodynamic benefits of flap** flight
compared with fixed-wing soaring flight for the development of flap**-wing Micro-Air …