@inproceedings{353d6fd7fdc840dc923c85d847acbf67,
title = "The design of a low-speed wind tunnel for studying the flow field of insects' flight",
abstract = "In this paper, low-speed smoke wind tunnel has been designed and fabricated for the insects' flow field visualization. The test section and the contraction section of the tunnel are optimized and determined as to size by the method of computational fluid dynamics. And fairing devices are equipped in different sections to reduce the turbulence intensity and increase the flow uniformity in the experimental sections. For the smoke visualization of small insects, the smokeemitting equipment has been specially designed and carefully debugged. Composed of wind tunnel, light source and high-speed camera, experimental platform for visualization and filming of insect flight flow field has been established. Besides, the feasible and stable method for insect fixing has been designed. With the smoke wind tunnel, flow filed visualization experiment for the honeybee's flapping was conducted and smoke flow filed in the experiment was recorded and analyzed. Near-filed and far-filed vortex structure when the honeybee fly can be recorded clearly. The experimental results indicate that the experimental platform is appropriate for flow filed study on insects flapping.",
keywords = "Flow field, Honeybee, Smoke lines, Wind tunnel",
author = "Zhao, {Hong Yan} and Zhang, {Peng Fei} and Yun Ma and Ning, {Jian Guo}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2014, ICEM 2014 ; Conference date: 15-11-2014 Through 17-11-2014",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2080734",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Anand Asundi and Chau, {Fook Siong} and Chenggen Quan and Kemao Qian",
booktitle = "International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2014",
address = "United States",
}