Vision: Smart Hydro- / Aero-dynamic Skins • Combining multi-sensor detection and passive control • Improving the flight envelope / stability / efficiency From filiform hairs to hairy flaps / feathers • Small scale control/sensing? ➡ Butterfly scales • Large scale control? ➡ Pop-up of feathers in bird flight The webcast recording is now available. Click here to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPyTb_-qhgo Find out more about the Nature Inspired Solutions special interest group at https://ktn-uk.co.uk/interests/nature-inspired-solutions Join the Nature Inspired Solutions LinkedIn group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13701855/

1. Nature-inspired surfaces for marine and
wind energy applications
Prof. Christoph Brücker, City University of London
BAE Systems Chair in Aeronautical Engineering and
RAEng Chair in Nature-Inspired Flow Sensing and Manipulation

2. Vision: Smart Hydro- / Aero-dynamic Skins
• Combining multi-sensor detection and passive control
• Improving the flight envelope / stability / efficiency
Butterfly scales
Small scale control/sensing? Large scale control?
Pop-up of feathers in bird flight
From filiform hairs to hairy flaps / feathers

3. Emerging disruptive technologies
Micro-pillar flow sensors bat wind hairs

4. Application in turbulent boundary layer flow
5 mm, Re = 1*10^6

5. Understanding flow physics in nature
Incipient flow separation detection:
Studies on Peregrine Falcon life and with wind-tunnel models

6. NACA 0020
Adapting to Engineering problems
Stall delay and increase of maximum lift

7. Transfer into Multiphysics
Noise reduction via flexible structures

8. Outreach of nature-inspired research
BBC Two Natural World 2017: Live recordings in the Lake District
Aerodynamics of the Peregrine Falcon‘s diving flight