MRI: Acquisition of an Animal Flight and Aeromechanics Wind Tunnel

布朗大学获得了一个奖项，以建立一个新的动物飞行和航空力学风洞。除了促进传统的空气动力学实验外，风洞还将用于测试鸟类、蝙蝠和其他飞行和滑翔动物，并将为动物飞行和生物启发飞行机器人提供新的见解。风洞设施将提供给对动物飞行，流体力学和美国内外相关主题感兴趣的研究人员。来自不同社区的研究人员，包括主要的研究型大学，本科教学学院以及私人和公共机构，将被鼓励参与使用新风洞及其相关仪器的研究计划。博士后研究人员，研究生和本科生将接受使用风洞设施的培训。该设施将用于举办多所大学的生物空气动力学和控制研讨会和研讨会，并在使用先进的测量诊断。布朗大学的科学家是生物飞行研究的领导者，并在这一领域开创了许多实验。随着先进诊断技术的发展-高速摄像，粒子图像测速，动物数据记录和传输等-动物飞行研究已成为生物学家，生物启发机器人专家和其他科学家和工程师的激烈研究领域。这些小组使用先进的诊断工具，以更好地了解生物飞行的运动学，力学和动力学以及飞行生理学的各个方面;这些研究的结果揭示了机翼上生命的生态和进化，并激发了新颖的工程设计。新的风洞将允许动物飞行科学家在整个美国和超越动物科目的多样性，并采用先进的实验技术在生物力学，动物飞行和生物启发机器人的研究，并将促进学生和教师之间的持续和新的合作。它将使先进的测量运动学和动力学的动物战斗，肌肉功能，回声定位，传感和控制在飞行过程中。除了生物测试，风洞将被广泛和多样化的研究人员社区用于工程流体力学和空气动力学研究，允许在基础流体力学，空气动力学，流体结构相互作用和能源系统方面进行变革性实验。

An award is made to Brown University to build a new animal flight and aeromechanics wind tunnel. In addition to facilitating conventional aerodynamic experiments, the wind tunnel will be configured for testing of birds, bats, and other flying and gliding animals and will enable new insights into animal flight and bio-inspired flight robotics. The wind tunnel facility will be made available to researchers interested in animal flight, fluid mechanics and related topics throughout and outside the US. Researchers from diverse communities including major research universities, undergraduate teaching colleges, and private and public institutions, will be encouraged to participate in research programs using the new wind tunnel and its associated instrumentation. Postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students will receive training that uses the wind tunnel facility. The facility will be used to host multi-university workshops and symposia on biological aerodynamics and control, and in the use of advanced measurement diagnostics.Scientists at Brown are leaders in the study of biological flight and have pioneered many experiments in this field. With the development of advanced diagnostics - high-speed videography, particle image velocimetry, animal-mounted data logging and transmission, etc. - animal flight research has become an area of intense research among biologists, bio-inspired roboticists, and other scientists and engineers. These groups use advanced diagnostic tools to better understand the kinematics, mechanics and dynamics of biological flight and diverse aspects of flight physiology; the results of these studies shed light on the ecology and evolution of life on the wing, and inspire novel engineering designs. The new wind tunnel will permit animal flight scientists throughout and beyond the US to work with a diversity of animal subjects and to employ sophisticated experimental techniques in the study of biomechanics, animal flight and bio-inspired robotics, and will facilitate ongoing and new collaborations among students and faculty. It will enable advanced measurement of kinematics and dynamics of animal fight, muscle function, echolocation, sensing and control during flight. In addition to biological testing, the wind tunnel will be used by a broad and diverse community of researchers in engineering fluid mechanics and aerodynamics research, allowing for transformative experiments in fundamental fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions and energy systems.