Micro air vehicles (MAV's) have the potential to revolutionize our sensing and information gathering capabilities in environmental monitoring and homeland security areas. Due to the …
It was thought that the aerodynamics of flapping flight in birds is fully understood for quite some time, but recent studies have shown that this is not the case. Bird flight uses …
W Shyy, Y Lian, J Tang, D Viieru, H Liu - 2008 - repository.ust.hk
Low Reynolds number aerodynamics is important to a number of natural and man-made flyers. Birds, bats, and insects have been of interest to biologists for years, and active study …
H Hu, AG Kumar, G Abate, R Albertani - Aerospace Science and …, 2010 - Elsevier
An experimental study was conducted to assess the aerodynamic benefits of flapping flight compared with fixed-wing soaring flight for the development of flapping-wing Micro-Air …
Prevailing utilization of airfoils in the design of micro air vehicles and wind turbines causes to gain attention in terms of determination of flow characterization on these flight vehicles …
J Tang, D Viieru, W Shyy - AIAA journal, 2008 - arc.aiaa.org
WITH our desire to understand the capabilities of natural flyers such as birds, bats, and insects, and, lately, with increasing interest in developing the micro air vehicle technologies …
Horizontal axis wind turbines are used for energy generation at domestic as well as industrial levels. In the wind turbines, a reduction in drag force and an increase in lift force …
Flapping flight of animals has captured the interest of researchers due to their impressive flight capabilities across diverse environments including mountains, oceans, forests, and …
L Cai, Z Dai, W Wang, H Wang, Y Tang - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Pigeons (Columba livia) have excellent flying and orienting abilities and are ideal study subjects for biologists who research the underlying neurological mechanisms that modulate …