Details of insect wing design and deformation enhance aerodynamic function and flight efficiency

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5947, 2009, Pages 1549-1552

  Young, John ^a   Walker, Simon M ^b   Bomphrey, Richard J ^b   Taylor, Graham K ^b   Thomas, Adrian L R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; KINEMATICS; LOCUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; WING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLYING; FORELIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCUST; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SMOKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GRASSHOPPERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; WING;

HEXAPODA; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 70349304399     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175928     Document Type: Article

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23. The research leading to these results has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant GR/S23049/01 to A.L.R.T. and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement no.204513 to G.K.T. J.Y. was supported by the Merit Allocation Scheme on the National Facility of the Australian National Computing Infrastructure (NCI-NF) and gratefully acknowledges the Rector of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy for the award of a sabbatical scholarship to perform this work. R.J.B. holds an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship. G.K.T. is a Research Councils UK Academic Fellow and Royal Society University Research Fellow. We gratefully acknowledge the EPSRC Instrument Loan Pool and thank N. J. Lawson for advice and the loan of equipment for the DPIV measurements.