Biofluiddynamics of flight as an inspiration for design Seminar

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Professor David Lentink , Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Professor Lentink works in the experimental zoology lab of Johan van Leeuwen at Wageningen University, and in the lab of Michael Dickinson at Caltech, on optimal fluid mechanical strategies in animal swimming and flight. He is fascinated by the amazing implications of Newton's law of motion in nature and technology, especially in animal locomotion. Everyday interests are in both fluid and structural mechanics and the interaction between fluids and structures. He enjoys designing experiments (numerical and experimental) and bio-inspired robotic vehicles. At all times he tries to intertwine experiments with theoretical insight, which he says remains challenging in biology, while at every corner an exciting discovery is lurking.