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Computational aerodynamics of insect flight using volume penalization
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Online first (2022), pp. 1-20.

The state-of-the-art of insect flight research using advanced computational fluid dynamics techniques on supercomputers is reviewed, focusing mostly on the work of the present authors. We present a brief historical overview, discuss numerical challenges and introduce the governing model equations. Two open source codes, one based on Fourier, the other based on wavelet representation, are succinctly presented and a mass-spring flexible wing model is described. Various illustrations of numerical simulations of flapping insects at low, intermediate and high Reynolds numbers are presented. The role of flexible wings, data-driven modeling and fluid–structure interaction issues are likewise discussed.

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DOI : 10.5802/crmeca.129
Mots clés : Numerical simulation, Insect flight, Fluid–structure interaction, Turbulence, Flexible wings
Thomas Engels 1 ; Hung Truong 2 ; Marie Farge 3 ; Dmitry Kolomenskiy 4 ; Kai Schneider 2

1 ISTA, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 I2M-CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
3 LMD-CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
4 CMT, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia
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Thomas Engels; Hung Truong; Marie Farge; Dmitry Kolomenskiy; Kai Schneider. Computational aerodynamics of insect flight using volume penalization. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Online first (2022), pp. 1-20. doi : 10.5802/crmeca.129.

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