Publications

Books

  1. Shyy, W., Aono, H., Kang, C. and Liu, H. An Introduction To Flapping Wing Aerodynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2013

Journals

  1. Raghu, S. L., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Whitehead, P, and Conners, R. T., “Kinematic Analysis of Gait in an Underwater Treadmill using Land-Based Vicon T40s Motion Capture Cameras Arranged Externally,” Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 124, 2021, pp. 110553

  2. K. C., Tejaswi, Kang, C., and Lee, T, “Dynamics and Control of a Flapping Wing UAV with Abdomen Undulation Inspired by Monarch Butterfly,” 2021 American Control Conference, 2021

  3. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Aono, H., Mathis, S.H., Lee, T., “Unconventionally high lift coefficients in Monarch butterflies at high-altitude conditions”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), , Vol. 16, 2021, 034002

  4. K. C., Tejaswi, Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Lee, T, “Effects of Abdomen Undulation in Energy Consumption and Stability for the Flights of Monarch Butterfly,” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), Vol. 16, 2021, 046003

  5. Hefner, C, Kang, C., Qiu, H., and Shyy, W. "Distinct Aerodynamics of Insect Flight," Cambridge Elements, Cambridge University Press, 2021

  6. Pohly, J., Kang, C., Sridhar, M.K., Landrum, D.B., Bluman, J.E., Aono, H., “Scaling Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles for Hover," Acta Astronautica (2019 impact factor: 2.830), Vol. 180, 2021, pp. 545 - 559

  7. Raghu, S. L., Kang, C., Whitehead, P., Takeyama, A., and Conners, R., “Static accuracy analysis of Vicon T40s motion capture cameras arranged externally for motion capture in constrained aquatic environments", Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 89, 2019, pp. 139–142. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.04.029

  8. Nedunchezian, K., Kang, C., Aono, H. "Effects of flapping wing kinematics on the aeroacoustics of hovering flight", Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 442, pp. 366 - 383, 2019. doi: 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.11.014

  9. Bluman, J. E., Sridhar, M., and Kang, C. "Passive Stabilization of Hovering Fruit Fly Models with Flexible Wings", Journal of Royal Society Interface, Vol. 15, pp. 20180409, 2018. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0409

  10. Arora, N., Kang, C., Shyy, W. and Gupta, A. "Analysis of passive flexion in propelling a plunging plate using a torsion spring model", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 857, pp. 562-604. doi: 10.1017/jfm.2018.736

  11. Bluman, J. E., Pohly, J., Sridhar, M., Kang, C., Landrum, D. B., and Fahimi, F. "Achieving Bioinspired Flapping Wing Hovering Flight Solutions on Mars via Wing Scaling", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 13, 2018, pp. 046010. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aac876

  12. Medina, C. and Kang, C. "Analytical Solution to the Aeroelastic Response of a Two-dimensional Elastic Plate in Axial Potential Flow", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 845, R3, 2018. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.264

  13. Bluman, J. E., Kang, C., and Shtessel, Y. "Control of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle: a Sliding Mode Approach", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 5, 2018, pp. 1223-1226

  14. Pohly, J., Salmon, J. L., Bluman, J. E., Nedunchezian, K.and Kang, C., "Quasi-steady versus Navier-Stokes Solutions of Flapping Wing Aerodynamics”, Fluids, Vol 3, Nr. 4, 2018. doi: 10.3390/fluids3040081

  15. Kang, C., Cranford, J., Sridhar, M., Kodali, D., Landrum, D. B., and Slegers, N. "Experimental Characterization of a Butterfly in Climbing Flight", AIAA Journal, Vol. 56, Nr. 1, 2018, pp 1-10. doi:10.2514/1.J055360

  16. Kodali, D., Medina, C., Kang, C., and Aono, H., "Effects of Spanwise Flexibility on the Performance of Flapping Flyers in Forward Flight", Journal of Royal Society Interface, Vol 14, no 136, 2017, pp. 20170725. doi:10.1098/rsif.2017.0725

  17. Bluman, J. E., and Kang, C. "Achieving Hover Equilibrium in Free Flight with a Flexible Flapping Wing", Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol 75, 2017, pp. 117-139. doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.08.011

  18. Bluman, J. E., and Kang, C., "Wing-wake Interaction Destabilizes Hover Equilibrium of a Flapping Insect-scale Wing," Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol 12, 2017, pp. 046004. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aa7085

  19. Kodali, D., and Kang, C., "An Analytical Model and Scaling of Chordwise Flexible Flapping Wings in Forward Flight", Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol 12, 2016, pp. 016006. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/12/1/016006

  20. Shyy, W., Kang, C., Pakpong, C., Sridhar, R., Liu, H., "Aerodynamics, Sensing and Control of Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Flight", Proceedings of Royal Society A, Vol. 472, 2016, pp. 20150712. doi:10.1098/rspa.2015.0712

  21. Sridhar, M., and Kang, C., "Aerodynamic Performance of Two-dimensional, Chordwise Flexible Flapping Wings at Fruit Fly Scale in Hover Flight," Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol 10, 2015, pp. 036007. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/10/3/036007

  22. Kang, C., and Shyy, W., “Analytical Model for Instantaneous Lift and Shape Deformation of an Insect-scale Flapping Wing in Hover,” Journal of Royal Society Interface, Vol 11, no 101, 2014, pp. 20140933. doi:10.1098/rsif.2014.0933

  23. Vandenheede, R., Bernal, L. P. B., Morrison, C., Gogulapati, A., Friedmann, P. P., Kang, C., and Shyy, W., "Experimental and Computational Study on Flapping Wings with Bio-Inspired Hover Kinematics," AIAA Journal, Vol. 52, Nr. 5, pp. 1047 - 1058, 2014. doi:10.2514/1.J052644

  24. Kang, C. and Shyy, W., "Scaling law and enhancement of lift generation of an insect-size hovering flexible wing,” Journal of Royal Society Interface, Vol. 10 no. 85, 2013. doi:10.1098/rsif.2013.0361

  25. Kang, C., Aono, H., Baik, Y.S., Bernal, L.P., and Shyy, W., “Fluid Dynamics of Pitching and Plunging Flat Plate at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers," AIAA Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 315-329, 2013. doi:10.2514/1.J051593

  26. Kang, C., Aono, H., Cesnik, C.E.S., and Shyy, W., “Effects of Flexibility on the Aerodynamic Performance of Flapping Wings,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 689, pp. 32 - 74, 2011; An earlier version was also presented in the 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, 27 - 30 June 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, Orlando, Florida, Paper No. 2011-3121. doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.428

  27. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Aono, H., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "Low-Reynolds-Number Aerodynamics of a Flapping Rigid Flat Plate," AIAA Journal, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 806 - 823, 2011. doi:10.2514/1.J050827

  28. Shyy, W., Aono, H., Chimakurthi, S, Trizila, P., Kang, C., Cesnik, C., and Liu, H., "Recent Progress in Flapping Wing Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity," Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 48, Nr. 7, pp. 284-327, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.paerosci.2010.01.001

  29. Ol, M., Bernal, L., Kang, C., and Shyy, W., "Shallow and Deep Dynamic Stall for Flapping Low Reynolds Number Airfoils", Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 46, Nr. 5, pp. 883-901, 2009. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11633-9_26

  30. Shyy, W., Trizila, P., Kang, C., Aono, H., "Can Tip Vortices Enhance Lift of a Flapping Wing?," AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, pp. 289-293, 2009. doi:10.2514/1.41732

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

  1. Morris, T.D., Sridhar, M.K., Clark, T., Schulze, F., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Roh, K.H., Lee, T., Aono, H., “Experimental Measurements of the Wing Deformation and Force Production of Real and Bioinspired Artificial Monarch Butterfly Wings,” AIAA-2022-0308, AIAA Scitech Forum, 3-7 January 2022, San Diego, CA & Virtual.

  2. Sridhar, M.K., Pohly, J., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Lee, T., Aono, H., “Effects of Vein Structures on Fluid-structure Interaction of Flexible Flapping Wings at High Altitudes,” AIAA-2021-0963, AIAA Scitech Forum, 11-15 & 19-21 January 2021, Virtual Event, 2021.

  3. Tran, T., Kang, C., Mathis, S., “Lower-Gait Tracking Mobile Application: A Case Study of Lower body Motion Capture Comparison Between Vicon T40 System and Apple Augmented Reality”, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, 2020.

  4. McCain, J., Pohly, J., Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Aono, H., “Experimental Force and Deformation Measurements of Bioinspired Flapping Wings in Ultra-Low Martian Density Environment”, AIAA 2020-2003, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  5. Dunne, S., Palma, G., Pohly, J., Mesmer, B., Landrum, D.B, Kang, C. “System Analyzer for a Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicle System for Varying Mission Contexts,” AIAA 2020-0665, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  6. Twigg, R., Sridhar, M.K., Pohly, J., Hildebrandt, N., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Roh, K., Salzwedel, S., “Aeroelastic Characterization of Real and Artificial Monarch Butterfly Wings,” AIAA 2020-2002, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  7. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Lee, T, “Geometric Formulation for the Dynamics of Monarch Butterfly with the Effects of Abdomen Undulation,” AIAA 2020-1962, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  8. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Aono, H., “Fluid-structure Interaction of Flexible Flapping Wings at High Altitude Conditions”, AIAA 2020-1781, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  9. Aono, H., Kikkawa, K., Ishikawa, H., and Kang, C., “A Numerical Study of Sound Generation on Pitch and Plunge Wing at Low Reynolds Numbers”, AIAA 2020-1495, AIAA Scitech, Orlando, FL, 6-10 January 2020

  10. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Landrum, D.B., "Beneficial Effect of the Coupled Wing-Body Dynamics on Power Consumption in Butterflies," AIAA 2019-0566, AIAA 2019 Scitech Forum, San Diego, California, January 7 - 11, 2019

  11. Nedunchezian, K., Kang, C., and Aono, H., " Sound Generation of Flexible Plunging Wings in Hover at Low Reynolds Numbers," AIAA 2019-1072, AIAA 2019 Scitech Forum, San Diego, California, January 7 - 11, 2019

  12. Pohly, J., Kang, C., Sridhar, M.K., Landrum, D.B., Fahimi, F., Mesmer, B., Bluman, J.E., Aono, H., Lee, T. “Scaling Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles for Hover," AIAA 2019-0567, AIAA 2019 Scitech Forum, San Diego, California, January 7 - 11, 2019

  13. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Wahidi, R., Lang, A. and Wilroy, J. " Numerical Investigation of Effects of Experimental Environment on Vortex Formation in Low Reynolds Number Flows," AIAA 2018-1080, AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, January 8 - 12, 2018

  14. Nedunchezian, K., Kang, C., and Aono, H. "A Numerical Analysis of the Effects of Wing Kinematics on Flapping Wing Aeroacoustics," AIAA 2018-0269, AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, January 8 - 12, 2018

  15. Kang, C., Sridhar, M.K., and Landrum, D.B. "Dynamic Relationship Between Flapping Wing and Body Undulation of Monarch Butterflies in Free Flight," AIAA 2018-0041, AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, January 8 - 12, 2018

  16. Pohly, J., Sridhar, M.K., Bluman, J. E., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Fahimi, F., Aono, H. and Liu, H., "Payload and Power for Dynamically Similar Flapping Wing Hovering Flight on Mars," AIAA 2018-0020, AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Kissimmee, Florida, January 8 - 12, 2018

  17. Bluman, J. E., Shtessel, Y., and Kang, C., "Sliding Mode Control of a Biomimetic Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle in Hover," AIAA 2017-1633, AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  18. Benson, K.L., Landrum, D.B., and Kang, C., "Monarch Madness: A Cross-curricular Approach to Elementary STEM Education," AIAA 2017-0515, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  19. Salmon, J. L., Bluman, J. E., and Kang, C., "Quasi-steady versus Navier-Stokes Solutions of Flapping Wing Aerodynamics," AIAA 2017-0329, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  20. Kodali, D., Kang, C., and Aono, H. " An Analytical Aeroelastic Model of Spanwise Flexible Flapping Wings in Forward Flight," AIAA 2017-0331, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  21. Bluman, J. E., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Fahimi, F.,and Mesmer, B., "Marsbee-Can a Bee Fly on Mars?," AIAA 2017-0328, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  22. Kang, C., Sridhar, M.K., Landrum, D.B., Nakamura, Y., and Aono, H., "Effects of Altitude on the Flight Performance of Monarch Butterflies," AIAA 2017-0093, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 9 - 13, 2017

  23. Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Landrum, D.B., " Instantaneous Lift and Motion Characteristics of Butterflies in Free Flight," AIAA 2016-3252, AIAA AVIATION, Washington, D.C., June 13 - 17, 2016

  24. Bluman, J. E. and Kang, C., "Balancing the Efficiency and Stability of the Coupled Dynamics and Aerodynamics of a Flapping Flyer," AIAA 2016-4009, AIAA AVIATION, Washington, D.C., June 13 - 17, 2016

  25. Bluman, J. E., Sridhar, M. K., and Kang, C., " The Influence of Wing Flexibility on the Longitudinal Dynamics of a Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle in Hover," AIAA 2016-0470, 57th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, San Diego, California, January 4 - 8, 2016

  26. Kodali, D. and Kang, C., " Analytical Aerodynamic Model of Chordwise Flexible Flapping Wings in Forward Flight," AIAA 2016-1064, 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, January 4 - 8, 2016

  27. Cranford, J., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., and Slegers, N., "Experimental Characterization of Butterfly in Climbing Flight," AIAA 2015-2328, AIAA AVIATION, Dallas, Texas, June 22 - 26, 2015

  28. Sridhar, M. K. and Kang, C., " Aerodynamic Performance of Flexible Flapping Wings at Bumblebee Scale in Hover Flight," AIAA 2015-0254, 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, January 5 - 9, 2015

  29. Shyy, W. and Kang, C., "Time-Accurate Estimate of Flexible Flapping Wing Aerodynamics," Invited Presentation, 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, Boston, Massachusetts, July 6 - 11, 2014

  30. Sridhar, M. K. and Kang, C., "Effects of Flexible Wings in Hover Flight at Fruit Fly Scale," AIAA 2014-2311, 44th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16 - 20, 2014

  31. Kang, C., and Shyy, W., “A Quasi-Steady Model for the Lift on a Hovering Flexible Wing,” AIAA 2014-1114, 52nd Aerospace Science Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, January 13 - 17, 2014

  32. Kang, C., and Shyy, W., “Modeling of Instantaneous Passive Pitch of Flexible Flapping Wings,” AIAA-2013-2469, 43rd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, California, June 24 - 27, 2013

  33. Vandenheede, R., Bernal, L. P. B., Morrison, C., Gogulapati, A., Friedmann, P. P., Kang, C., and Shyy, W., "Comparison of Experiments on Bio-inspired Hover Kinematics with the Unsteady Vortex Model and CFD,", AIAA-2013-0066, 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, January 7 - 10, 2013

  34. Kang, C., and Shyy, W., " Passive Wing Rotation in Flexible Flapping Wing Aerodynamics," AIAA-2012-2763, 30th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 25 - 28, 2012

  35. Kang, C., and Shyy, W., "Effects of Flexibility on the Aerodynamics of a Hovering Flexible Airfoil at Reynolds Number of 100 to 1000," AIAA-2012-1206, 50th AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, January 9 - 12, 2012

  36. Kang, C., Aono, H., and Shyy, W., “Scaling in Flexible Flapping Wings,” American Physical Society, 64th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, November 19 - 22, 2011

  37. Kang, C., Aono, H., Cesnik, C.E.S., and Shyy, W., "Effects of Flexibility on the Aerodynamic Performance of FlappingWings," AIAA-2011-3121, 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30, 2011

  38. Su, W., Kang, C., and Cesnik, C.E.S., "Nonlinear Aeroelastic Analysis of Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles with a Surrogate Aerodynamic Model," International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics 2011, Paris, France, Jun. 26–30, 2011

  39. Kang, C., Aono, H., Cesnik, C.E.S., and Shyy, W., "A Scaling Parameter for Thrust Generation of Flapping Flexible Wings," AIAA-2011-1313, 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 4 - 7 January 2011

  40. Aono, H., Kang, C., Cesnik, C.E.S., and Shyy, W., "A Numerical Framework for Isotropic and Anisotropic Flexible FlappingWing Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity," AIAA-2010-5082, 28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 28-1, 2010

  41. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Aono, H., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "Fluid Physics and Surrogate Modeling of a Low Reynolds Number Flapping Rigid Flat Plate," AIAA 2010-5081, 28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 28 June - 1 July 2010

  42. Kang, C., Aono, H., Trizila, P., Baik, Y., Rausch, J.M., Bernal, L., Ol, M.V., and Shyy, W., "Modeling of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils of Reynolds Number between 1 × 104 and 6 × 104", AIAA-2009-4100, 27th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 22-25, 2009

  43. Kang, C., Baik, Y., Bernal, L., Ol, M.V., and Shyy, W., "Fluid Dynamics of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils of Reynolds Number between 1×104 and 6×104", AIAA-2009-536, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, Florida, Jan. 5-8, 2009

  44. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "A Surrogate Model Approach in 2-D Versus 3-D Flapping Wing Aerodynamic Analysis", AIAA-2008-5914, 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, September, 2008

  45. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "Unsteady Fluid Physics and Surrogate Modeling of Low Reynolds Number, Flapping Airfoils", AIAA-2008-3821, 38th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Seattle, Washington, June 2008

  46. Saric, W., Reed, H., Kang, C., Gladden, R., Gabet, P., and Clevenger, D., "Supersonic Laminar Flow Control on Swept Wings Using Distributed Roughness Experiments,” American Physical Society, 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, California, November 18 - 20, 2001