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This paper studied the aerodynamic benefit of the wing-body interaction in a wide body insect, the cicada. We found that the heavy body itself can increase the overall lift by about 20%.
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This page is a summary of: Vortex dynamics and new lift enhancement mechanism of wing–body interaction in insect forward flight, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2016.175.
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