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Experimental study on instantaneous thrust and lift of two plunging wings in tandem

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Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs

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Upwash exploitation and downwash avoidance by flap phasing in ibis formation flight

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Propulsive performance of unsteady tandem hydrofoils in an in-line configuration

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The characterization of tandem and corrugated wings

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The effect of phase angle and wing spacing on tandem flapping wings

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Recovery of Energy from Leading- and Trailing-Edge Vortices in Tandem-Airfoil Configurations

(2011) D. Rival et al.   JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT

Wing–wake interaction reduces power consumption in insect tandem wings

(2008) Fritz-Olaf Lehmann   EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS

Phasing of dragonfly wings can improve aerodynamic efficiency by removing swirl

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Effect of spanwise flexibility on flapping wing propulsion

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