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Highly deformable flapping membrane wings suppress the leading edge vortex in hover to perform better
Alexander Gehrke, Karen Mulleners
Airborne insects generate a leading edge vortex when they flap their wings. This coherent vortex is a low pressure region that enhances the lift of flapping wings compared to fixed…
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Wing twist and folding work in synergy to propel flapping wing animals and robots
Xiaozhou Fan, Alexander Gehrke, Kenneth Breuer
We designed and built a three degrees-of-freedom (DOF) flapping wing robot, Flapperoo, to study the aerodynamic benefits of wing folding and twisting. Forces and moments of this ph…