Mounting evidence suggests that fluid advection can effectively be studied by considering
special material surfaces, which are referred to here as Lagrangian coherent structures …

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 biomimetic jellyfish robot based on ionic polymer metal composite actuators was
fabricated and activated to mimic real locomotive behavior with pulse and recovery …

We demonstrate the feasibility of using dynamical systems tools to unambiguously identify
mesoscale oceanic eddies from surface ocean currents derived using climatological …

We use a dynamical systems approach to identify coherent structures from often chaotic
motions of inertial particles in open flows. We show that particle Lagrangian coherent …

This paper presents new efficient methods for computing finite-time Lyapunov exponent
(FTLE) fields in unsteady flows. The methods approximate the particle flow map, eliminating …

The present study investigates the complex vortex interactions in two-dimensional flow-field
behind a symmetric NACA0012 airfoil undergoing a prescribed periodic pitching-plunging …

In this paper we develop reduced-order models for the unsteady lift on a pitching and
plunging aerofoil over a range of angles of attack. In particular, we analyse the pitching and …

The term “Lagrangian coherent structure”(LCS) is normally used to describe numerically
detected structures whose properties are similar to those of stable and unstable manifolds of …

Finite-time Lyapunov exponents (FTLEs) provide a powerful approach to compute time-
varying analogs of invariant manifolds in unsteady fluid flow fields. These manifolds are …