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most citedAerodynamic ground effect in fruitfly sized insect takeoff

40 citations · 58 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 3 cited

Bees with attitude: the effect of gusts on flight dynamics

Timothy Jakobi, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Teruaki Ikeda +4

Flight is a complicated task at small scales in part due to the ubiquitous unsteady air which contains it. Flying organisms deal with these difficulties using active and passive co…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 12 cited

Closed-form solution for the edge vortex of a revolving plate

Di Chen, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Hao Liu

Flapping and revolving wings can produce attached leading edge vortices (LEVs) when the angle of attack is large. In this work, a low order model is proposed for the edge vortices…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 3 cited

Added costs of insect-scale flapping flight in unsteady airflows

Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Sridhar Ravi, Taku Takabayashi +8

The aerial environment in the operating domain of small-scale natural and artificial flapping wing fliers is highly complex, unsteady and generally turbulent. Considering flapping…

physics.bio-ph2016

Bumblebees minimize control challenges by combining active and passive modes in unsteady winds

Sridhar Ravi, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, Thomas Engels +4

The natural wind environment that volant insects encounter is unsteady and highly complex, posing significant flight control and stability challenges. Unsteady airflows can range f…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 40 cited

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…