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 …

The elevated aerodynamic performance of insects has been attributed in part to the
generation and maintenance of a stable region of vorticity known as the leading edge 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 …

The wake states from a circular cylinder undergoing controlled sinusoidal oscillation
transverse to the free stream are examined. As the frequency of oscillation passes through …

We propose an aerodynamic force model associated with a Galerkin model for the unforced
fluidic pinball, the two-dimensional flow around three equal cylinders with one radius …

A momentum-based method for determining the instantaneous force on a body is formulated
for application to quantitative imaging of vortex shedding from a cylinder. It involves a control …

In this paper, we numerically investigate the propulsive performance of three-dimensional
pitching flexible plates with varying flexibility and trailing edge shapes. We employ our …

Aquatic locomotion of a deformable body from rest up to its asymptotic speed is given by the
unsteady motion which is produced by a series of periodic reactions dictated by the body …

The effects of passive, inertia-induced surface flexibility at the leading and trailing edges of
an oscillating airfoil energy harvester are investigated experimentally at reduced …

The concept of added mass arises from potential flow analysis and is associated with the
acceleration of a body in an inviscid irrotational fluid. When shed vorticity is modeled as …