TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW PROPERTIES OF INSECT FLIGHT ABOUT THRUST GENERATION - VORTEX STAYING AND VORTEX PAIRING PHENOMENA

곤충비행에서 추력발생에 관한 2차원 유동장 특성 - 와류정체 및 와류 짝 현상

Many researchers have made an effort to explain flight mechanism of flapping insects. As a result, several unsteady mechanisms about lift generation in insect flight have been proposed. But it has a limits to elucidate insect's forward flight and abrupt thrust, because most of these are about insect's hovering flight. For this reason, the objective of this paper is to simulate "Figure-of-eight motion" of insect's wing during tethered flight for comprehending aerodynamic property in insect's forward flight.