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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2021

A semi-empirical model of the aerodynamics of manoeuvring insect flight.

Simon M Walker, Graham K Taylor

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Structural dynamics and neural representation of wing deformation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. The self-oscillation paradox in the flight motor ofJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023
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  4. Downstroke and upstroke conflict during banked turns in butterflies.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Simon M WalkerFaculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Graham K TaylorDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blade element modelling provides a quick analytical method for estimating the aerodynamic forces produced during insect flight, but such models have yet to be tested rigorously using kinematic data recorded from free-flying insects. This is largely because of the paucity of detailed free-flight kinematic data, but also because analytical limitations in existing blade element models mean that they cannot incorporate the complex three-dimensional movements of the wings and body that occur during insect flight. Here, we present a blade element model with empirically fitted aerodynamic force coefficients that incorporates the full three-dimensional wing kinematics of manoeuvring

Indexed as

DipteraFlight, AnimalAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaInsectaModels, BiologicalWings, Animaladded massblade element modelEristalisflapping flighthoverflyquasi-steady aerodynamics

Identifiers

PMID33906387
PMCPMC8086888

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