RevealFlight Project

Shedding light on the efficiency optimization mechanisms deployed by biological flyers.

[RevealFlight Project @revealflight]

Our latest research paper on flapping flight stability has just been published with @SpringerNature in Journal of Nonlinear Science.
The framework studies the flight stability of a bird flight via the Floquet theory.
Full reading: https://t.co/HmJiICZ4GS
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Morphological studies suggested that the wing amplitude marginally affects flight stability, while its capability to generate nose-down moment is beneficial for the stability behavior.
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[RevealFlight Project @revealflight]

Our latest research paper on flapping flight stability has just been published with @SpringerNature in Journal of Nonlinear Science.
The framework studies the flight stability of a bird flight via the Floquet theory.
Full reading: https://t.co/HmJiICZ4GS
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[RevealFlight Project @revealflight]

For the tail-less configuration investigated, results show one unstable mode that leads to flight instability.
If so, birds would need to continuously rely on sensory feedback to adapt their gait via active control.
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The volume rendering of the vorticity magnitude shows well defined wingtip vortices characterizing the wake of the flier.
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[RevealFlight Project @revealflight]

Happy to announce our first publication in @BioinspBiomim!
The work presents a high fidelity wing anatomy and kinematics with a vortex particle mesh aerodynamics solver for simulating a controlled bird flight.
https://t.co/iG3Mir7XNw
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The gait is described by superimposing periodic functions on the wing joints, and accordingly to the wing morphing the lifting line (red) is extracted:
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