Aimy Wissa
@awissa_bid
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Assistant Professor, Princeton University Bioinspired Design! Birds, Bugs, and Flying Fish
New Jersey, USA
Joined January 2010
New Paper Alert 🚨! I am excited to share the newest work from the BAM lab @EPrinceton! This @PNASNews paper presents a distributed passive feather-inspired flow control system. It work is a labor of love, an idea we have been working on for many years. 🧵
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Spreading cheer from the BAM Lab to everyone. Happy Holidays :D
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@DrCristinaRiso Hi! Thank you for your comment. We are starting to think about this a lot. It would be great to maybe connect about this.
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RT @Princeton: Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled aircr…
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This work is possible because of a fantastic team. Thanks to @GirguisS for leading this work, @Nate___Simon for the incredible flight testing, and Hannah and @AhmedKOthman1 for your support in the lab and on the field!! Read the paper at
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Wind tunnel results show that the mechanism by which a single covert-inspired flap improves lift depends on its location! Leading edge flaps interact with the shear layer to help maintain the suction peak, but near the trailing edge, the flap acts as a physical barrier.
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We then asked: What are the flow physics of a single flap in post-stall flight, and how do they vary as a function of the flap's location? Would multiple rows of flaps be aerodynamically beneficial? How do findings from the wind tunnel translate to in-flight performance?
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Intrigued by these incredible feathers, we created a simplified bioinspired system consisting of an engineered wing section and passive deployable flaps on the upper side. This simplified analogy helps us answer biology questions and inform mechanical systems design.
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The work takes inspiration from a group of bird wing feathers known as the coverts. Coverts are multiple rows of contour feathers. All birds have covert feathers, but very little is known about their aerodynamic role in bird flight (Photo Credit: Pixabay)
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Check out this great opportunity (due 11/1) for #PostDoc @Princeton. If you are eligible and interested in Bioinspired Design and Locomotion... Please feel free to reach out, send me your CV, and let's team up.
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@HungtangK @EPrinceton Thank you @HungtangK for the support! Working with you has been one of the highlights of my time at Princeton!
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I am very proud of my Phd student @TeaganMathur.
.@TeaganMathur, a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering, poses with the Excellence in Teaching award she just received during the awards ceremony on Friday. All 16 honorees will be listed on our website in the near future.
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Thank @Pikullab and Sam Tawfick @uofigrainger for organizing and moderating an exciting webinar. The article that was highlighted in the webinar is now published @Materials_MRS. This was collaboration with @sbergbreiter, Dr. Ophelia Bolmin, Luis Viornery and @TeaganMathur!
Join Sam Tawfick and I in our @Materials_MRS conversation with experts on Materials for Powering Miniature Robots on February 21. Hear from @awissa_bid at @EPrinceton, Marc Miskin at @PennEngineers and Minshen Zhu at
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RT @LabPikul: Join Sam Tawfick and I in our @Materials_MRS conversation with experts on Materials for Powering Miniature Robots on February…
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Another day at #APSDFD2023! Today is all about BIRDS! BAM lab is presenting work on feather-inspired flow and flight control. If you are at DFD, stop by sessions L04 and T10 🪶 🦜. Come see @AhmedKOthman1, @GirguisS, Diaa, and Hannah in action!!
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