Aerodynamic Characteristics of the Ventilated Design for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle

Figure 1

The presence of vortices in simulated airflow around the flapping wing model.

(a) Flow visualization of the leading-edge vortex over a flapping wing (Ellington et al. [3])

(b) Morphological models and multi-blocked grids (Liu and Aono [4])

(c) Vortex generation of bat’s wing in the spanwise plane (Hueso et al. [5])