Passive wing pitch reversal in insect flight
By Attila Bergou, Sheng Xu, Z. J. Wang. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2007
211 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Citations in the corpus
- Resonance and propulsion performance of a heaving flexible wing (2009, unknown): “The use of low-order models for the flexible wing also simplifies the computation while still retaining important physical results on the reaction of the body to the fluid flow [25, 26].”
- Aerodynamic and functional consequences of wing compliance (2009, unknown): “For example, during supination in natural flight a moth wing undergoes inertialdriven pitch reversal about a spanwise axis, manifest as a torsional wave that propagates from the tip to the base, thereby establishing a positive angle of attack for the subsequent upstroke (Bergou et al. 2007; Willmott”
- Progress on ‘pico’ air vehicles (2012, background): “There is evidence that wing rotation in some insects is driven by inertial and aerodynamic forces, as opposed to directly activated by thoracic musculature (Ennos, 1988b,a; Bergou et al., 2007).”
- Aeromechanics of passive rotation in flapping flight (2010, methodology): “In addition, aerodynamic estimates have shown that it is possible to achieve rotation purely by passive means for some insects (Bergou et al. 2007), but there is insufficient evidence to make this claim for all insects. For a mechanical device, relying on passive rotation is not an inevitability, bu”