70th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (November 19, 2017 — November 21, 2017)

V0079: Bumblebee flight in turbulence: high resolution numerical simulations

Authors
  • Thomas Engels, ISTA, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Müller-Breslau-Strasse 12, 10623 Berlin, Germany & LMD-CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
  • Dmitry Kolomenskiy, CEIST, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan
  • Kai Schneider, Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, 39 rue F. Joliot-Curie, 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France
  • Marie Farge, LMD-CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
  • Fritz-Olaf Lehmann, Department of Animal Physiology, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 3, 18059 Rostock, Germany
  • Jörn Sesterhenn, ISTA, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Müller-Breslau-Strasse 12, 10623 Berlin, Germany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2017.GFM.V0079

A massively parallel numerical simulation of a flying bumblebee shows that insects do not expend extra energy to maintain lift in turbulent air flow.

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