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The complex aerodynamic footprint of desert locusts revealed by large-volume tomographic particle image velocimetry.

In English

Författare

  • Per Henningsson
  • Dirk Michaelis
  • Toshiyuki Nakata
  • Daniel Schanz
  • Reinhard Geisler
  • Andreas Schröder
  • Richard J Bomphrey

Summary, in English

Particle image velocimetry has been the preferred experimental technique with which to study the aerodynamics of animal flight for over a decade. In that time, hardware has become more accessible and the software has progressed from the acquisition of planes through the flow field to the reconstruction of small volumetric measurements. Until now, it has not been possible to capture large volumes that incorporate the full wavelength of the aerodynamic track left behind during a complete wingbeat cycle. Here, we use a unique apparatus to acquire the first instantaneous wake volume of a flying animal's entire wingbeat. We confirm the presence of wake deformation behind desert locusts and quantify the effect of that deformation on estimates of aerodynamic force and the efficiency of lift generation. We present previously undescribed vortex wake phenomena, including entrainment around the wing-tip vortices of a set of secondary vortices borne of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in the shear layer behind the flapping wings.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volym

12

Issue

108

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

The Royal Society of Canada

Ämne

  • Evolutionary Biology

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Animal Flight Lab

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1742-5662