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Nick van der Geest, Lorenzo Garcia, Roy Nates and Fraser Borrett
Sea turtles gracefully navigate their marine environments by flapping their pectoral flippers in an elegant routine to produce the required hydrodynamic forces required for locomotion. The propulsion of sea turtles has been shown to occur for approximate...
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Nick van der Geest, Lorenzo Garcia, Roy Nates and Alberto Gonzalez-Vazquez
Sea turtles are recognised as one of the ocean?s most remarkable migratory species, accomplishing journeys that cover thousands of kilometres. This fact is even more extraordinary when considering sea turtles consume mostly low-energy foods. The biology ...
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Thomas Lambert, Norizham Abdul Razak and Grigorios Dimitriadis
Flapping flight is an increasingly popular area of research, with applications to micro-unmanned air vehicles and animal flight biomechanics. Fast, but accurate methods for predicting the aerodynamic loads acting on flapping wings are of interest for des...
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