Keyword

flapping flight

Description: Flapping flight is a mode of animal or vehicle locomotion in which wings repeatedly move to generate lift and thrust.

Primary topic: Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (73%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1473208

OpenAlex ID: keywords/flapping-flight

Dissecting Insect Flight

2003 · Z. Jane Wang · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 639

Unsteady aerodynamic force generation by a model fruit fly wing in flapping motion

2002 · Mao Sun, Jian Tang · Journal of Experimental Biology · 566

Four-winged dinosaurs from China

2003 · Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, et al. · Nature · 485

Details of Insect Wing Design and Deformation Enhance Aerodynamic Function and Flight Efficiency

2009 · John Young, Simon M. Walker, et al. · Science · 444

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Vortex shedding and frequency selection in flapping flight

2000 · Z. JANE WANG · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 425

Unsteady aerodynamics and flow control for flapping wing flyers

2003 · Steven Ho, Hany Nassef, et al. · Progress in Aerospace Sciences · 409

The influence of wing–wake interactions on the production of aerodynamic forces in flapping flight

2003 · James M. Birch, Michael H. Dickinson · Journal of Experimental Biology · 403

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Modelling the Flying Bird

2008 · Theoretical ecology/Theoretical ecology series · 383

Modelling thrust generation of a two-dimensional heaving airfoil in a viscous flow

2003 · G. C. LEWIN, H. HAJ-HARIRI · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 371

Flapping wing aerodynamics: from insects to vertebrates

2016 · Diana D. Chin, David Lentink · Journal of Experimental Biology · 357

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Flapping flight for biomimetic robotic insects: part I-system modeling

2006 · Xinyan Deng, L. Schenato, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 355

Leading-Edge Vortex Improves Lift in Slow-Flying Bats

2008 · F. T. Muijres, L. C. Johansson, et al. · Science · 350

A New Approach to Animal Flight Mechanics

1979 · J. M. V. Rayner · Journal of Experimental Biology · 349

The Flight of Birds

1963 · R. H. J. BROWN · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 339

Unifying constructal theory for scale effects in running, swimming and flying

2006 · Adrian Bejan, James H. Marden · Journal of Experimental Biology · 336

An aerodynamic model for flapping-wing flight

1993 · J. D. DeLaurier · The Aeronautical Journal · 304

Detours in Bird Migration

2001 · THOMAS ALERSTAM · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 299

Dynamic flight stability in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

2003 · Graham K. Taylor, Adrian L. R. Thomas · Journal of Experimental Biology · 298

Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects

2007 · Thomas Alerstam, Mikael Rosén, et al. · PLoS Biology · 286

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Wingbeat Time and the Scaling of Passive Rotational Damping in Flapping Flight

2009 · Tyson L. Hedrick, Bo Cheng, et al. · Science · 285

Obligate vertebrate scavengers must be large soaring fliers

2004 · Graeme D. Ruxton, David C. Houston · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 284

Into thin air: contributions of aerodynamic and inertial-elastic forces to wing bending in the hawkmothManduca sexta

2003 · S. A. Combes, T. L. Daniel · Journal of Experimental Biology · 277

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Flapping flight for biomimetic robotic insects: part II-flight control design

2006 · Xinyan Deng, L. Schenato, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 274

Aeromechanics of passive rotation in flapping flight

2010 · J. P. WHITNEY, R. J. WOOD · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 269

Optimal flight speed of birds

1995 · Anders Hedenström, Thomas Alerstam · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 262

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Citation count: 37,530