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Index
Chitosan, 109
Circular Lamina, 103
Citric acid cycle, 54
Clap and fling, 21
Clap and fling mechanism, 24
Cockroach, 7
Coefficient, 29
Coleoptera, 6, 57
Collar-diagram, 125
Collembola, 67
Comstock-Needham System, 44
Control reversal, 124, 125
Control segment, 176
Coriolis effect, 175
Coriolis force, 25
Corrugated wing, 12
Costa, 44
Counter-torque, 18
Critical wind speed, 13
Cubitus, 44
Culex, 4
Cumuliform, 134
Cuticle
endocuticle, 108
exocuticle, 108
Cyclic motion, 22
D
Deformations
elastic deformations, 113
structural deformation, 84
Delayed stall, 22
Denovo, 1
Deposition
chemical vapour deposition (CVD), 149
physical vapour deposition (PVD), 149
Determined mission, 136
Differential GPS, 179
Different modes of flight, 19
Diffusion, 149
Digital Particles Velocimetry, 23
Diglycerides, 54
Diptera, 66
Direct flight muscles, 5
Disc loading, 49
Distance Measurement Unit (DMU), 179
Divergence, 124
Torsional divergence, 125
DNA technology, 118
Dorso Longitudinal Muscle, 5
Downstroke, 20, 23
Downstroke motion, 21
Downward gravitational pull, 18
Downward stroke, 19
Downwash, 37
DYMORE, 125
Dynamic aeroelasticity, 121
Dynamic response, 127
Dynamics
flight dynamics, 122
structural dynamics, 122
E
Echo location, 182
Effective radius of gyration, 94
Elastic potential energy, 111
Electromagnetic induction
mechanism, 168
Electrostatic force, 150
Elliptic Lamina, 103
Elytra, 62
Elytron, 64
Endopterygota, 74
Enhancing devices, 11
Ephimeroptera, 69
Estimate, 162
Etching, 149
Evolution, 2
Excitation-Contraction-Coupling, 9
Exocuticle, 108
Exopterygota, 74
Exoskeleton, 57
F
Fast feedback sensory systems, 19, 26
Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG), 170
Fibre reinforced material
fibroin, 115
Fibre Reinforced Material Plastic (FRP),
161
Figure of 8, 85
Figwasps, 58
Flapping motion, 21, 25
Flapping Wing for Nano Air Vehicle, 13
Flapping wings, 13, 19
Flight parameters, 52
Flight path, 23
Flight velocity, 50
Flow separation, 26
Fluid mechanics, 17
Flutter, 125
atrial flutter, 125
foraging habits, 65
inertial forces, 122