The aerodynamics of insect flight

By Sanjay Sane. Journal of Experimental Biology, 2003

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Aerospace Engineering

1. Hikaru Aono
2. Chang-kwon Kang
3. Wei Shyy
4. Carlos E. S. Cesnik
5. John Peter Whitney
6. K. Breuer
7. A. Andersen
8. Umberto Pesavento

In Computational Mechanics

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2. Hikaru Aono
3. Chang-kwon Kang
4. A. Andersen
5. Umberto Pesavento
6. Carlos E. S. Cesnik
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8. George V. Lauder

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Citations in the corpus

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• Unsteady aerodynamics of fluttering and tumbling plates (2005, background): “There has been much recent progress in studies of the unsteady forces on flapping wings with wing kinematics similar to those of flying insects in flapping flight (Weis-Fogh & Jensen 1956; Ellington 1984; Dickinson 1996; Sane 2003; Wang 2005).”
• State-space representation of the unsteady aerodynamics of flapping flight (2014, background): “(6) matches well the experiments of Dickinson et al. [15], Sane and Dickinson [43] and Andersen et al. [2].”
• Dynamics of revolving wings for various aspect ratios (2014, background): “In an attempt to quantify the complex aerodynamics of insect flight, several experimental studies have been presented by Dickinson (1994), Ellington (1999), Usherwood & Ellington (2002a), Usherwood & Ellington (2002b), Sane (2003), Birch & Dickinson (2003), Lehmann (2004) and Lehmann & Pick (2007).”
• Aeromechanics of passive rotation in flapping flight (2010, background): “Many different aerodynamic effects have been identified, and are reviewed by Sane (2003).”
• Time-resolved wake structure and kinematics of bat flight (2009, background): “importance of unsteady effects (Ellington 1999; Ellington et al. 1996; Hedenström et al. 2006; Sane 2003; Spedding et al. 2003).”
• Vortex dynamics and new lift enhancement mechanism of wing–body interaction in insect forward flight (2016, background): “…both experimentally (Bennett 1966; Ellington 1984; Dickinson & Gotz 1993) and numerically (Liu & Kawachi 1998; Sun & Tang 2002; Wang 2004; Miller & Peskin 2005; Aono, Liang & Liu 2008), in order to answer the central question of how lift is augmented by unsteady wing motion (Sane 2003; Wang 2005).”
• Flapping flight for biomimetic robotic insects: part I-system modeling (2006, neutral): “[17] M. Dickinson, F.-O. Lehmann, and S. Sane, “Wing rotationa d the aerodynamic basis of insect flight,”Science, vol. 284, no. 5422, pp. 1954–1960, 1999.”
• Hydrodynamics of swimming in stingrays: numerical simulations and the role of the leading-edge vortex (2016, background): “…force enhancement features for the lift-based mechanism in insects, birds and bats (Ellington et al. 1996; Van Den Berg & Ellington 1997; Birch & Dickinson 2001; Sane 2003; Videler, Stamhuis & Povel 2004; Muijres et al. 2008; Lentink & Dickinson 2009b; Chang et al. 2013; Thielicke & Stamhuis 2015).”
• Flow structure on finite-span wings due to pitch-up motion (2011, background): “A wide range of investigations, reviewed by Sane (2003), Lehmann (2004), Wang (2005), Lentink & Dickinson (2009) and Shyy et al. (2010), have enhanced our understanding of unsteady aerodynamics for the design and development of micro-aerial vehicles.”