PhD on Aerodynamics of butterfly flight in altered gravity, at Laboratoire de Physique ENS de Lyon (co-founded by CNES)

a thesis offer is available in our group, at the Physics Laboratory of the ENS of Lyon, on the Aerodynamics of butterfly flight in altered gravity. The thesis, co-financed by the CNES, aims at providing a detailed experimental characterization of the flight of butterflies in micro and hyper-gravity, in order to study the evolution of the characteristics of the flapping flight and to elucidate the aerodynamic couplings at the origin of the thrust and the lift as a function of the gravity level. For that, experiments in turntable and parabolic flight will be performed.