We report a comprehensive scaling law and novel lift generation mechanisms relevant to the aerodynamic functions of structural flexibility in insect flight. Using a Navier-Stokes equation solver, fully coupled to a structural dynamics solver, we consider the hovering motion of a wing of insect size, in which the dynamics of fluid-structure interaction leads to passive wing rotation. Lift genera...

development of the structural form is directly influenced by the architectural concern for aesthetic appeal. the architectural challenge is to create building forms that satisfy the functional requirements, yet are aesthetically and economically successful. the structural challenge is to create structural forms that accommodate the functional requirements while supporting the imposed loads as e...

Structural biology is the study of howmolecular shape, chemistry and physics connect to biological function. This work is inherently multidisciplinary and co-located group discussions are a key part of the work as participants need to refer to and study visualizations of the molecule’s shape and properties. In this paper, we present the design and initial assessment of CollabMOL, a collaborativ...

The statistical analysis of shape distributions based on random samples is important in many areas such as morphometry, medical diagnostics, and machine vision. To measure the shape of an object, one may pick a suitable ordered set of k points or landmarks called k-ad on a two or three dimensional image of the object under consideration. The equivalence class of the k-ad identified modulo size ...

In applications, objects rarely have exactly the same shape within measurement error; hence the randomness of shapes need to be taken into account. Thanks to the development of information technologies, the last decade has seen a considerable growth of interest in the statistical shape theory and its application to various scientific areas. The solution of the problem of describing a “shape” vi...