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SUBMITTER: Shyy W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4841661 | biostudies-other | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Shyy Wei W Kang Chang-Kwon CK Chirarattananon Pakpong P Ravi Sridhar S Liu Hao H
Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 20160201 2186
There are nearly a million known species of flying insects and 13 000 species of flying warm-blooded vertebrates, including mammals, birds and bats. While in flight, their wings not only move forward relative to the air, they also flap up and down, plunge and sweep, so that both lift and thrust can be generated and balanced, accommodate uncertain surrounding environment, with superior flight stability and dynamics with highly varied speeds and missions. As the size of a flyer is reduced, the win ...[more]