Experimental investigation of the effect of chordwise flexibility on the aerodynamics of flapping wings in hovering flight

Experimental investigation on aerodynamic performance of a flapping wing vehicle in forward flight

“…Relatively few experimental works have been carried out in this field to explore more about the complex aerodynamic phenomena occurring during the flapping flight (Mazaheri and Ebrahimi, 2010a;Murphy, 2008;Muniappan et al, 2004;Muniappan et al, 2005;Aditya and Malolan, 2007). Such research would complement recent numerical studies (Isogai and Harino, 2007;Gogulapati et al, 2008;Fritz and Long, 2004;Willis et al, 2006) on flapping flight, and give an insight into the performance of membranous wings over the entire range of practical Reynolds numbers.…”

Numerical Analysis of the Influence of Fibre Orientations in a two-layered Biomimetic Flapping Wing

“…Alternatively, tremendous progress was done in the field of aerodynamics and Kinematics [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Vincent [17] found that the material of insect wing was similar to composite materials, many other researchers also believed that the wing of natural insects are composite structures [18][19][20].…”

Multi-body simulation of a flapping-wing robot using an efficient dynamical model

“…In general, studies available in the literature on flapping mechanical birds are categorized into experimental and theoretical. A designoriented model for the unsteady aerodynamics of a flapping wing has been developed using a modified strip theory approach, which considers vortex-wake effects for partial leading edge suction and post-stall behavior [7]. In order to model a micro-air flapping wing as a system of three rigid bodies with rigidly attached wings and using D'Alembert's principle extended to rigid bodies, equations of motion for micro-air flapping wings were proposed [8].…”