Study of lift enhancing mechanisms via comparison of two distinct flapping patterns in the dragonfly sympetrum flaveolum

• Main Authors: Chen, Y. H., Stoke, Martin
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107284; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25522
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The computational fluid dynamic model of a live-sized dragonfly (Sympetrum flaveolum) hindwing is simulated according to the in-flight flapping motions measured in kinematic experiments. The flapping motion of the simulated wing is accomplished by dynamically re-gridding the wing-fluid mesh accordin...