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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…
FluSI: A novel parallel simulation tool for flapping insect flight using a Fourier method with volume penalization
Thomas Engels, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Kai Schneider +1
FluSI, a fully parallel open source software for pseudo-spectral simulations of three-dimensional flapping flight in viscous flows, is presented. It is freely available for non-com…
Aerodynamic ground effect in fruitfly sized insect takeoff
Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Masateru Maeda, Thomas Engels +3
Aerodynamic ground effect in flapping-wing insect flight is of importance to comparative morphologies and of interest to the micro-air-vehicle (MAV) community. Recent studies, howe…