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Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies
This work is a synthesis of our current understanding of the mechanics, aerodynamics and visually mediated control of dragonfly and damselfly flight, with the addition of new experimental and computational data in several key areas. These are: the diversity of dragonfly wing morphologies, the aerody...
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The Royal Society
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27528779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0389 |
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author | Bomphrey, Richard J. Nakata, Toshiyuki Henningsson, Per Lin, Huai-Ti |
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description | This work is a synthesis of our current understanding of the mechanics, aerodynamics and visually mediated control of dragonfly and damselfly flight, with the addition of new experimental and computational data in several key areas. These are: the diversity of dragonfly wing morphologies, the aerodynamics of gliding flight, force generation in flapping flight, aerodynamic efficiency, comparative flight performance and pursuit strategies during predatory and territorial flights. New data are set in context by brief reviews covering anatomy at several scales, insect aerodynamics, neuromechanics and behaviour. We achieve a new perspective by means of a diverse range of techniques, including laser-line mapping of wing topographies, computational fluid dynamics simulations of finely detailed wing geometries, quantitative imaging using particle image velocimetry of on-wing and wake flow patterns, classical aerodynamic theory, photography in the field, infrared motion capture and multi-camera optical tracking of free flight trajectories in laboratory environments. Our comprehensive approach enables a novel synthesis of datasets and subfields that integrates many aspects of flight from the neurobiology of the compound eye, through the aeromechanical interface with the surrounding fluid, to flight performance under cruising and higher-energy behavioural modes. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight’. |
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spelling | pubmed-49927132016-09-26 Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies Bomphrey, Richard J. Nakata, Toshiyuki Henningsson, Per Lin, Huai-Ti Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles This work is a synthesis of our current understanding of the mechanics, aerodynamics and visually mediated control of dragonfly and damselfly flight, with the addition of new experimental and computational data in several key areas. These are: the diversity of dragonfly wing morphologies, the aerodynamics of gliding flight, force generation in flapping flight, aerodynamic efficiency, comparative flight performance and pursuit strategies during predatory and territorial flights. New data are set in context by brief reviews covering anatomy at several scales, insect aerodynamics, neuromechanics and behaviour. We achieve a new perspective by means of a diverse range of techniques, including laser-line mapping of wing topographies, computational fluid dynamics simulations of finely detailed wing geometries, quantitative imaging using particle image velocimetry of on-wing and wake flow patterns, classical aerodynamic theory, photography in the field, infrared motion capture and multi-camera optical tracking of free flight trajectories in laboratory environments. Our comprehensive approach enables a novel synthesis of datasets and subfields that integrates many aspects of flight from the neurobiology of the compound eye, through the aeromechanical interface with the surrounding fluid, to flight performance under cruising and higher-energy behavioural modes. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight’. The Royal Society 2016-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4992713/ /pubmed/27528779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0389 Text en © 2016 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Bomphrey, Richard J. Nakata, Toshiyuki Henningsson, Per Lin, Huai-Ti Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title | Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title_full | Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title_fullStr | Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title_full_unstemmed | Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title_short | Flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
title_sort | flight of the dragonflies and damselflies |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4992713/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27528779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0389 |
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