Computational Biomechanics and Biomimetics in Flying and Swimming: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The advantages of flying and swimming over other forms of locomotion lead to the prosperity and diversity of insects, birds, and fishes all over the globe. For example, these biological flyers and swimmers can perform with extremely robust agility and maneuverability in various complex environments using flapping wings, fins, and tails. Their flying and swimming capabilities have been increasingly refined through a long period of natural selection, presenting an exciting venture in biomimetics.

Through emulating nature’s time-tested forms, functions, and strategies in flying and swimming animals, we expect to uncover their sophisticated underlying principles and mechanisms. This would enable further exploration of sustainable engineering alternatives to solve the practical problems in industry. Biomechanics and biomimetics are rapidly growing research areas of an interdisciplinary and high-integration nature, and computational approaches are considered as an essential and powerful tool to tackle multidisciplinary problems.

Therefore, this Special Issue aims to focus on computational models, numerical algorithms and methods, and computer software and frameworks in the biomechanics and biomimetics of biological flying and swimming, as well as their applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Computational fluid dynamics with geometrical and kinematical complexities of a body, wings, and fins;
• Numerical algorithms and methods for coupled multiphysics such as wing–air and fin–water interactions;
• Modeling for wings, fins, and joints, which consists of complex and multiscale structures, such as reduced-order modeling and multiscale modeling;
• Complementary methodologies such as scaling laws;
• Computer software and frameworks for coupled multiphysics and large-scale analyses;
• Passivity of flexible structures;
• Control and maneuverability in flying and swimming;
• Simulation-based biomimetic design for flying and swimming biorobots.

Prof. Dr. Zheng Zhong
Dr. Pan Jia
Dr. Dan Hou
Guest Editors

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• computational biomechanics
• computational biomimetics
• biological flying
• biological swimming

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