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An experimental data-driven mass-spring model of flexible Calliphora wings
Hung Truong, Thomas Engels, Henja Wehmann +3
Insect wings can undergo significant deformation during flapping motion owing to inertial, elastic and aerodynamic forces. Changes in shape then alter aerodynamic forces, resulting…
The impact of turbulence on flying insects in tethered and free flight: high-resolution numerical experiments
Thomas Engels, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Kai Schneider +3
Flapping insects are remarkably agile fliers, adapted to a highly turbulent environment. We present a series of high resolution numerical simulations of a bumblebee interacting wit…
Helical vortices generated by flapping wings of bumblebees
T. Engels, D. Kolomenskiy, K. Schneider +3
High resolution direct numerical simulations of rotating and flapping bumblebee wings are presented and their aerodynamics is studied focusing on the role of leading edge vortices…
Bumblebee flight in heavy turbulence
T. Engels, D. Kolomenskiy, K. Schneider +2
High-resolution numerical simulations of a tethered model bumblebee in forward flight are performed superimposing homogeneous isotropic turbulent fluctuations to the uniform inflow…