Outline

• Background

  • What is biomimetics?
  • Why study biological flight?

• The case for flapping flight

  • The problem of scale
  • Does engineered flapping flight ever make sense?
  • Kinematics of flapping flight
  • Flow control issues

• Unsteady aerodynamics

• Marine drag reduction

• Summary

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