Symmetry breaking leads to forward flapping flight

By N. Vandenberghe, Jun Zhang, S. Childress. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Condensed Matter Physics

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Motor Learning at Intermediate Reynolds Number: Experiments with Policy Gradient on the Flapping Flight of a Rigid Wing (2010, background): “Previous work demonstrated that driving the vertical motion with a sinusoidal waveform caused the system to begin rotating in a stable “forward flight” (Vandenberghe et al., 2004).”
Wing–wake interaction reduces power consumption in insect tandem wings (2009, background): “Although these values are at the low end of small dragonflies (250–500, Rüppell 1989), they are considered well above the transitional Reynolds number of approximately 55 for vortex shedding (Miller and Peskin 2004; Vandenberghe et al. 2004).”
Flapping and Bending Bodies Interacting with Fluid Flows (2011, background): “Understanding how passive responses—whether built into structure geometry, or in material and fluidic behaviors—are exploited has been a central theme of our own laboratory (e.g., Alben & Shelley 2005, Childress et al. 2006, Vandenberghe et al. 2004).”
The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms (2008, background): “Much recent work has been devoted to the breakdown of the theorem with inertia, and the transition from the Stokesian realm to the Eulerian realm is found to be either continuous or discontinuous depending on the spatial symmetries in the problem considered [78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84].”
Flow interactions lead to orderly formations of flapping wings in forward flight (2016, background): “The swimming motion is constrained to orbits around a water tank, and this rotational system reproduces key aspects of translational locomotion while allowing for long travel distances [23,25,26,28,29].”
Optimal flexibility of a flapping appendage in an inviscid fluid (2008, background): “Many recent studies of locomotion approach the dynamics and control of locomotory systems from the starting point of passive systems and ask: what dynamics arise naturally from fluid–body interactions with limited or no control? (Vandenberghe et al. 2004; Alben & Shelley 2005; Childress, Vandenbergh”