
Science & Technology
Series: Announcements
City aerodynamicists publish work in Communications Biology
Led by the Chair in Nature-Inspired Sensing and Flow Control for Sustainable Transport, Professor Christoph Bruecker, City's research demonstrates the way in which peregrine falcons perform complex maneuvers to attack their prey.
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by John Stevenson (Senior Communications Officer)

The article's authors are led by Research Chair in Nature-Inspired Sensing and Flow Control for Sustainable Transport, Professor Christoph Bruecker.
Professor Bruecker is also City's BAE Systems Sir Richard Olver Chair in Aeronautical Engineering.
Vortices

The image at right shows the evolution and passage of the vortical structures over the bird from the CFD simulation. The path of these vortices can be tracked by following each of the corresponding streamlines.
The forward swept wing segments also function to precondition the flow towards the tail such that the tail feathers have full pitch control.