Search results for: FLAPPING FLIGHT

• The Motion Analysis of Attacus Atlas Rigid Wing

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  • Z. Kunicka-kowalska
  • M. Landowski
  • K. Sibilski

  - International Review of Aerospace Engineering (IREASE) - Year 2022

  The remarkable aerodynamic efficiency of flapping insect wings has fascinated researchers for many years. Butterfly wings are distinguished by a much larger lifting surface, and thus, a different style of flapping flight. The considerations described in the article are an introduction to a fully flexible analysis of the wing in motion. The study of the rigid wing gives the basic knowledge necessary in the further process. The yaw,...

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• Deformable model of a butterfly in motion on the example of Attacus atlas

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  • Z. Kunicka-kowalska
  • M. Landowski
  • K. Sibilski

  - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials - Year 2022

  Insect wings can undergo significant chordwise (camber) as well as spanwise (twist) deformation during flapping flight but the effect of these deformations is not well understood. The shape and size of butterfly wings leads to particularly large wing deformations, making them an ideal test case for investigation of these effects. High-speed videogrammetry was used to capture the wing kinematics and deformations. The movements of...

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