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Aerodynamic consequences of wing damage in dragonflies
Peng Yu, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, Benjamin Thiria +2
Flapping wings are the primary means by which dragonflies generate forces, but they are susceptible to damage due to their inherent fragility. The damage results in a reduction in…
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…
Wavelet Adaptive Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Large Scale Flow Data
Philipp Krah, Thomas Engels, Kai Schneider +1
The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is a powerful classical tool in fluid mechanics used, for instance, for model reduction and extraction of coherent flow features. However,…
Fluid-structure interaction using volume penalization and mass-spring models with application to flapping bumblebee flight
Hung Truong, Thomas Engels, Dmitry Kolomenskiy +1
Wing flexibility plays an essential role in the aerodynamic performance of insects due to the considerable deformation of their wings during flight under the impact of inertial and…
A mass-spring fluid-structure interaction solver: Application to flexible revolving wings
Hung Truong, Thomas Engels, Dmitry Kolomenskiy +1
The secret to the spectacular flight capabilities of flapping insects lies in their wings, which are often approximated as flat, rigid plates. Real wings are however delicate struc…
A wavelet-adaptive method for multiscale simulation of turbulent flows in flying insects
Thomas Engels, Kai Schneider, Julius Reiss +1
We present a wavelet-based adaptive method for computing 3D multiscale flows in complex, time-dependent geometries, implemented on massively parallel computers. While our focus is…