insect wings
Biomechanical strategies for mitigating collision damage in insect wings: structural design versus embedded elastic materials
... that wings accidentally collided with vegetation relatively often – one strike per second on average – although these collisions occurred in bursts rather than at a constant rate (Foster and Cartar, ...their ...
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Flexural stiffness in insect wings I Scaling and the influence of wing venation
... their wings, as insect flight muscles are restricted to the wing ...base. Insect wings are largely passive structures, in which muscular forces transmitted by the wing base interact with ...
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Flexural stiffness in insect wings II Spatial distribution and dynamic wing bending
... of insect wings (incorporating vein configuration, three-dimensional relief, and variations in vein and membrane characteristics) could potentially reproduce the distribution of flexibility in real ...
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Aerodynamic effects of corrugation in flapping insect wings in hovering flight
... flapping wings, and recently, the aerodynamics of small insects is gaining more attention because of the possible applications in micro-aerial vehicles ...flapping insect wings using experimental and ...
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When wings touch wakes: understanding locomotor force control by wake–wing interference in insect wings
... oscillating wings interact with the surrounding ...other wings flapping in close ...robotic wings demonstrate that phase-lag during peak performance and the strength of force modulation depend on the ...
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Veins improve fracture toughness of insect wings
... flying insect, its wings are subjected to mechanical forces and deformations for millions of ...their wings and what role does the characteristic vein pattern play? Fracture toughness is a parameter, ...
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Measuring the angle of attack of beating insect wings: robust three dimensional reconstruction from two dimensional images
... A common problem in biomechanical studies is the need to reconstruct three-dimensional motions from two-dimensional film images. Ideally, this would involve the analysis of sequences recorded simultaneously from two or ...
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The aerodynamic benefit of wing–wing interaction depends on stroke trajectory in flapping insect wings
... both wings, we plotted the differences between one- and two-wing flapping conditions for the three stroke patterns A, J and M in ...the wings (peak III), (iv) a small biphasic change in vertical force ...
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The fluid dynamics of flight control by kinematic phase lag variation between two robotic insect wings
... the wings described by Weis-Fogh (1973) for the small wasp Encarsia ...the wings rotate and separate, air is drawn into the opening gap, enhancing wing circulation and thus wing lift (Bennett, 1977; Edwards ...
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The Importance of Torsion in the Design of Insect Wings
... Results Point force tests Intact wings As the wings were pushed they both twisted along their length and developed camber in the directions predicted by the model, so that, for instance,[r] ...
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Developmental basis for vein pattern variations in insect wings
... when wings arose in the Arthropod lineage, although it is generally assumed a monophyletic origin for the wings based on the uniformity of wing characters (Kukalova-Peck, ...that wings come from ...
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The aerodynamic effects of wing–wing interaction in flapping insect wings
... by wings during clap-and-fling generates a lift increase of ...two wings=0.243·N). This enhancement occurs when the two wings are still in close proximity and the angular separation between them is ...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Of Hovering In Flapping Insect Wings
... bird wings its folding or expanding, wing twisting; wrist flexing or extending concepts are the same as for fixed- wing aircraft so its start by analyzing how the power and energy needed depend on the speed of the ...
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UNSTEADY AERODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF MODEL WINGS AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS
... of insect wings and the axial flow on delta-wing aircraft are analogous in that they stabilize vortices on the lifting ...for insect flight for two reasons. First, by analogy with delta wings, ...
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INERTIAL AND AERODYNAMIC TORQUES ON THE WINGS OF DIPTERA IN FLIGHT
... The distribution of torques will be very important in determining the wing design: insect wings generally withstand the torques that are produced in flight without noticeable bending, bu[r] ...
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The aerodynamics of revolving wings I Model hawkmoth wings
... Recent experiments on the aerodynamics and forces experienced by model flapping insect wings have allowed great leaps in our understanding of the mechanisms of insect flight. ‘Delayed stall’ creates ...
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Advances in modelling of biomimetic fluid flow at different scales
... Other example of using CFD to study biomimetic fluid flow problems include simulation of air flow around flapping insect wings, numerical simulation of electroosmotic flow near earthworm[r] ...
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The Inertial Cause of Wing Rotation in Diptera
... The centre of mass of insect wings tends to be behind the centre of torsion of the wing, and it is proposed that wing inertia about the torsional axis alone is responsible for pitch chan[r] ...
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Ornithopter with Articulated Wings
... The above analysis is performed in the ANSYS and some results are generated as shown above in first figure we can the velocity contour in which the upcoming velocity is 5m/s (our wings forward speed). The next ...
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A Four Wing Compound Parabolic Concentrator (CPC) Design for Heating and Sanitization of Waste Products
... The methodological approach of the development of the four wing compound parabolic collector design is presented below including the mathematical for- mulas used for computing the shape dimensions as well as ...
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