Natural avian inspired ornithopter UAV by Kaung, Ko Ko

“…Therefore, in this final year project, the product development will encompass studying and analyzing several bird species, mainly their flight dynamics and followed by engineering flexible flapping wing platforms which produce both thrust and lift by nature inspired movement of the birds’ wings in different flight phases, namely flapping, gliding and maneuvering. …”
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Soft actuators and their fabrication for bio-inspired mobile robots by Lau, Gih-Keong, Low, Sze-Shien, Chin, Yao-Wei, Heng, Kim-Rui

“…Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA), which are capable of muscle-like actuation, have potential to drive insect-inspired flapping-wing robotfly. They have not been successfully used to drive flapping wings due to various limitations. …”
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Preliminary Investigation of 4D Printing Technology for Deployable UAV Development by Chua, Chee Kai, Teoh, J. E. M., Liu, Yong, An, J., Li, Y.

“…Current unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are large in size due to fixed wings and mechanical components. 4D printing is a technology that allows shape transformation (e.g. compaction, extension) of a 3D printed object. …”
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Morphing structures by Tan, Sharon Si Ying.

“…This project aims to investigate specific applications of smart materials in the design of a morphing wing. Smart materials have great potential in many fields, and are already widely used in some fields. …”
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Berdamai dengan takdir by Nor ‘Asyikin, Mat Hayin

“…Kuala Lumpur: Pakar perubatan pernah menjangkakan hayatnya hanya mampu bertahan sehingga usia 20 tahun susulan penyakit atrofi otot spina (SMA) jenis dua dihidapi.…”
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Design and develop an ornithopter by Wahyu Benardo Fanthony

“…Animal in other hand has unique style; bird for example is able to flying by flapping the wings. It is very interesting way to perform flight. …”
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Relation between management ownership and firm value by Koh Choon Hia, Kwok Foong Mui, Lee Chee Tong

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CFD investigation of a distributed propulsion system by Chng, Jia Yang

“…Numerical simulation using computational fluid dynamics is used in this paper to determine the lift and drag forces, and subsequently the aerodynamic efficiency of a 3-D finite wing in ANSYS Fluent. The computational domain utilized an overset mesh with the component consisting of the finite wing and equally spaced momentum sources representing propellers mounted on the wing. …”
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Digest: islands promote population differentiation in dispersive swallows by Estandía, A, Merino Recalde, N

“…However, wing shape remains consistent across populations, suggesting it might not accurately reflect dispersal propensity in this group. …”

THE WINGLESS PRINCE / by Marisa Fendi, author 655832, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…Cakrawala is the heir to the throne of Bayu, a kingdom inhabited by the forgotten winged folk. But all that changes overnight when his cousin betrays him for the crown. …”

Design and investigation of air-cooled heat sinks using 3D printing technology by Lim, Ming Chong

“…This study presents the heat transfer performance of five pin fin heat sinks that have been fabricated using Selective Laser Melting. …”
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Design and development of composite structure for a micro-UAV by Loke, Jun Jie.

“…This report describes the design process and fabrication of a composite fuselage for a 2kg class micro-UAV which is propelled by flapping wings. It begins with the comparison and selection of fabrication process. …”
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Optimization of transition maneuvers through aerodynamic vectoring by Maqsood, Adnan., Go, Tiauw Hiong.

“…Compared to the fixed-wing aircraft case, the angle of incidence of the wing provides an additional independent control variable in the optimization problem formulation. …”
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Butterfly-like micro air vehicle by Yang, Xiaobin

“…Butterfly cannot hover, but it has unique aerodynamic characteristics such as undulating body motion and low wing loading. Development of flapping wing micro air vehicle is mainly focus on the hovering birds and inserts. …”
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Dragonfly (Sympetrum flaveolum) flight : kinematic measurement and modelling by Chen, Y. H., Martin, Skote., Zhao, Y., Huang, W. M.

“…Such arrangement also eases the difficulties in rotating the wing during pronation by bending the leading edge forward and flattening the wing. …”
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A numerical study on bio-inspired aerofoils oscillating in tandem by Chua, Kok Nam

“…As a dragonfly has two pairs of wings, a natural progression would be to expand on these findings into investigating the effects and flow interactions between two tandemly-positioned aerofoils in synchronised pitching motion. …”
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Harnessing Instability Mechanisms in Airfoil Flow for Data-Driven Forecasting of Extreme Events by Barthel, Benedikt, Sapsis, Themistoklis P.

“…These extreme excursions may be seen as prototypical of the kind of unsteady and intermittent dynamics relevant to the flow around airfoils and wings in a variety of real-world applications. Here we investigate the instability mechanisms at the heart of these extreme events, and how they may be harnessed for efficient data-driven forecasting. …”
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Stress faced by executives in Singapore. by Par, Hwee Fong., Tan, Chin Ying., Thong, Hwei Ling.

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Challenges faced by women in the corporate world by Ang, Hui Jia, Sim, Jasmine Mei Yao, Yeo, Siew Hong

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HiPIMS deposition of VO2 thermochromic coating for enhanced optical properties by Vu, Tuan Duc

“…The Greta-oto butterfly has transparent wings with extraordinary omnidirectional anti-reflection behaviour, owing to the unusual nanostructures with random height and space distribution on its wing surface which are difficult to reproduce en masse. …”
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