Download or read book Modelling the Bird Flight (Scientific Report 2007-2010) written by Herbert Oertel and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aerodynamics of flying birds and insects plays a crucial role in the domain of aeronautical engineering. The energy-efficient construction of winglets for airplanes, the formation flight of tactical aircraft or the drone engineering or military applications are inspired by birds. This holds also for flow and structure simulation of flapping wing motion, taking the unsteady aerodynamics and corresponding wing deformations into account at high flow velocities and flapping frequencies.