Abstract: Diverse applications including switches, deployable structures, and reconfigurable robots can benefit from bi-stability characteristics. However, the complexity of the implementation and the limitation of the structural ...

Abstract: A lot of flapping-wing mechanisms have been proposed to mimic the flight characteristics of biological flyers. However, it is difficult to find studies that consider the unsteady aerodynamics in the design of the flapping-wing ...

Abstract: The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is utilized to numerically investigate the permeability and effective thermal conductivity of simple cubic and body-centered truss structures. The key objective of this paper is to analyze ...