A numerical study on the free hovering flight of a model insect at low Reynolds number

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2014.07.030MaRDI QIDQ1641602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Y. Aharonov

Publication date 19 June 2018

Published in Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2014.07.030

zbMATH Keywords

computational fluid dynamics (CFD)flapping wingsflight stability and controlfluid structure interaction (FSI)free hovering flightfruit flygeneralized finite-difference method (GFD)insect aerodynamicsleading edge vortex (LEV)Navier-Stokes equations (N-S)pendulum principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Animal behavior (92D50)

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