Using bird bone structure as inspiration, Xin Ning and Sepideh Ebad Sichani, Ph.D. '26, have created a new class of aircraft wing structures—unbound by traditional designs of ribs, spars and ...
Scientists from Hiroshima University undertook a study of dragonfly wings in order to better understand the relationship between a corrugated wing structure and vortex motions. They discovered that ...
After a sudden start, the wing's airflow comes into play. The red and blue areas show positive and negative vorticity, representing counterclockwise and clockwise flows. The curves depict streamlines.