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Record W2113922942 · doi:10.1002/mma.209

Computation of insect hovering

2001· article· en· W2113922942 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Z. Jane Wang

Bibliographic record

VenueMathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBiomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersDivision of Mathematical SciencesYork UniversityU.S. Department of EnergyNational Science Foundation
KeywordsComputationLift (data mining)VortexReynolds numberWingRotation (mathematics)FlappingMechanicsInsect flightTranslation (biology)Classical mechanicsMathematicsMechanism (biology)AmplitudePhysicsControl theory (sociology)GeometryComputer scienceTurbulenceAerodynamicsAlgorithmArtificial intelligenceOpticsQuantum mechanics

Abstract

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Abstract We review the results of a recent work on a two‐dimensional mechanism for insect hovering. Resolved computation of two‐dimensional insect hovering shows for the first time that a two‐dimensional hovering motion can generate enough lift to support a typical insect weight. The computation reveals a two‐dimensional mechanism of creating a downward dipole jet of counter‐rotating vortices, which are formed from leading and trailing edge vortices. This suggests that three‐dimensionality is not essential for hovering. The vortex dynamics further eluciates the role of the phase relation between the wing translation and rotation in lift generation. It also gives an intuitive picture of why the instantaneous forces can reach a periodic state after only a few strokes, which in principal enables an insect to take off quickly. The model predicts the lower limits in Reynolds number and amplitude above which the averaged forces are sufficient. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.420
Threshold uncertainty score0.172

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.090
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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