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Simulation and visualization of air flow around bat wings during flight

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G. E. KarniadakisAuthors Info & Claims

ICCS'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II

Pages 689 - 694

https://doi.org/10.1007/11428848_89

Published: 22 May 2005 Publication History

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This paper presents a case study of interdisciplinary collaboration in building a set of tools to simulate and visualize airflow around bat wings during flight. A motion capture system is used to generate 3D coordinates of infrared markers attached to the wings of a bat flying in a wind tunnel. Marker positions that cannot be determined due to high wing deformation are reconstructed on the basis of the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The geometry obtained for the wings is used to generate a sequence of unstructured tetrahedral meshes. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation are solved using the hybrid spectral/hp element solver Nektar. Preliminary simulation results are visualized in the CAVE, an immersive, 3D, stereo display environment.

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ICCS'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II

May 2005

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ISBN:3540260439

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Vaidy S. Sunderam
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Geert Dick Albada
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam, SJ, The Netherlands
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Peter A. Sloot
Faculty of Sciences, Section of Computational Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam, SJ, The Netherlands
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Jack J. Dongarra
Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Kruislaan 403, TN, Knoxville, The Netherlands

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