| 词条 | Adrian Thomas (zoologist) |
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| name = Adrian Thomas | honorific_suffix = | birth_name = Adrian Leland Rees Thomas | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age |1963}}[1] | birth_place = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Zoology Insect flight Ornithopters Biomechanics | workplaces = University of Oxford Animal Dynamics Ltd. University of Cambridge[2] | patrons = | education = Abingdon School | alma_mater = University of Oxford (MA) University of Lund (PhD) | thesis_title = On the tails of birds | thesis_url = http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph012158643 | thesis_year = 1995 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website ={{URL|http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/thomas_alr.htm}} }}Adrian Leland Rees Thomas (born 1963)[1] is a professor of biomechanics at the University of Oxford[2] and Director of Studies in Biological Sciences at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford running the Animal Flight Research Group. He is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Animal Dynamics Ltd[1][3] and is also chairman of the flight section of the Bionis International Biomimetics Network.[4] EducationThomas was educated at Abingdon School{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} and studied zoology at Oxford[5] as an undergraduate from 1981 to 1984. He completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Lund University in 1995 on the flight feathers of birds.[6] Career and researchThomas was appointed a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall in 1998 and professor of biomechanics in 2006. He founded the University of Oxford Animal Flight Research Group in 1996.[7] His mechanical analogue of dragonflies was developed by his company, Animal Dynamics Ltd, to make small unmanned aerial vehicles (aka drones or ornithopters) to outperform quadcopters.[8][9] His work has been funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the research arm of the British Ministry of Defence, and the United States Air Force. The company is an Oxford University spin-off started in 2015 with co-founder Alex Caccia.[1] The company has expanded into the biomechanics of fish to develop a machine powered by the same type of flapping propulsion.[10] His research investigates insect flight[11][12] using dragonflies,[13] butterflies,[14] desert locusts[15] and hawkmoths.[16] Thomas has supervised several Doctor of Philosophy students including Graham Taylor,[17] Simon Walker[18] and Richard Bomphrey.[19] Thomas was a British champion in paragliding in 2006 and 2009.[20] He is an executive board member of the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association.[1] He was an aerodynamics consultant with Airwave Gliders GmbH, who manufactured paragliders, hang-gliders and ultralight aircraft.[21] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/z4iO3IGbKXR2emt2LPL6Q5OZNM0/appointments|website=companieshouse.gov.uk|publisher=Companies House|location=London|author=Anon|year=2015|title=Adrian Leland Rees THOMAS|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6vZhJqmFc?url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/z4iO3IGbKXR2emt2LPL6Q5OZNM0/appointments|archivedate=2017-12-09|access-date=2017-12-09|dead-url=no|df=}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Adrian Leland Rees}}2. ^{{Scopus id}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Projects under development at Animal Dynamics Ltd.|url=https://www.animal-dynamics.com/project-details-1/|website=animal-dynamics.com|access-date=7 November 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=Adrian Thomas|publisher=Department of Zoology, Oxford University|url=http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/people/view/thomas_alr.htm|access-date= 2 November 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09byqf7|title=Adrian Thomas on the mechanics of flight|authorlink=Jim Al-Khalili|first=Jim|last=Al-Khalili|year=2017|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC}} 6. ^{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=Lund University|title=On the tails of birds|oclc = 36788832|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph012158643|year=1995|first=Adrian Leland Rees|last=Thomas}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://flight.zoo.ox.ac.uk/|title=Oxford Animal Flight Group|website=flight.zoo.ox.ac.uk|accessdate=8 December 2017|author=Anon|year=2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.techworld.com/tech-innovation/biomechanics-of-birds-inspires-drones-made-by-animal-dynamics-for-military-3660120/|website=techworld.com|first=Thomas|last=Macaulay|year=2017|title=Meet Animal Dynamics, the UK startup creating military drones inspired by dragonflies}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theengineer.co.uk/insect-inspiration-uk-defence-drone-mimics-dragonfly-flight/|website=theengineer.co.uk|title=Insect inspiration: UK defence drone mimics dragonfly flight|first=Jon|last= Excell|year=2016}} 10. ^{{cite web|author=Anon|title=Flapping about: Biomechanics: Replacing a propeller with a flapping fin could help a team of zoologists set a new speed record on the water|publisher=The Economist|year=2015|url=https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21662643-biomechanics-replacing-propeller-flapping-fin-could-help-team|access-date= 2 November 2017}} 11. ^{{Cite journal|last=Ellington|first=Charles P.|authorlink1=Charles Ellington|last2=Berg|first2=Coen van den|last3=Willmott|first3=Alexander P.|last4=Thomas|first4=Adrian L. R.|date=1996|title=Leading-edge vortices in insect flight|url=|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=384|issue=6610|pages=626–630|doi=10.1038/384626a0|issn=1476-4687}} {{closed access}} 12. ^{{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Graham K.|last2=Nudds|first2=Robert L.|last3=Thomas|first3=Adrian L. R.|date=2003|title=Flying and swimming animals cruise at a Strouhal number tuned for high power efficiency|url=|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=425|issue=6959|pages=707–711|doi=10.1038/nature02000|issn=1476-4687}} {{closed access}} 13. ^{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Adrian L. R.|last2=Taylor|first2=Graham K.|last3=Srygley|first3=Robert B.|last4=Nudds|first4=Robert L.|last5=Bomphrey|first5=Richard J.|date=2004|title=Dragonfly flight: free-flight and tethered flow visualizations reveal a diverse array of unsteady lift-generating mechanisms, controlled primarily via angle of attack|url=|journal=Journal of Experimental Biology|language=en|volume=207|issue=24|pages=4299–4323|doi=10.1242/jeb.01262|issn=0022-0949|pmid=15531651}} {{free access}} 14. ^{{Cite journal|last=Srygley|first=R. B.|last2=Thomas|first2=A. L. R.|date=2002|title=Unconventional lift-generating mechanisms in free-flying butterflies|url=|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=420|issue=6916|pages=660–664|doi=10.1038/nature01223|issn=1476-4687}} {{closed access}} 15. ^{{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=Graham K.|last2=Thomas|first2=Adrian L. R.|date=2003|title=Dynamic flight stability in the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria|journal=Journal of Experimental Biology|language=en|volume=206|issue=16|pages=2803–2829|doi=10.1242/jeb.00501|issn=0022-0949|pmid=12847126}} {{free access}} 16. ^1 {{Cite journal|last=Willmott|first=A. P.|last2=Ellington|first2=C. P.|authorlink2=Charles Ellington|last3=Thomas|first3=A. L. R.|date=1997|title=Flow visualization and unsteady aerodynamics in the flight of the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|publisher=Royal Society|volume=352|issue=1351|pages=303–316|doi=10.1098/rstb.1997.0022|issn=0962-8436|pmc=1691930}} 17. ^{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Animal flight dynamics : mechanics of stability and control|first= Graham K.|last=Taylor|date=2002|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph015505969|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.270179}}|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|oclc=499340532}} 18. ^{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Insect flight : kinematics and aerodynamics|first= Simon M.|last=Walker|date=2007|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph016721924|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.670125}}|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|oclc=234139822}} 19. ^{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Oxford|title=The aerodynamics of insect flight|first= Richard J.|last=Bomphrey|date=2004|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph016022028|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.410318}}|website=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|oclc=64587460}} 20. ^{{cite web|title=Gin Welcomes Adrian Thomas|url=https://flybubble.com/blog/gin-welcomes-adrian-thomas|website=flybubble.com|access-date = 2 November 2017|first=Carlo |last=Borsattino |year=2011}} 21. ^{{cite journal|title= Cross-Country Magazine|date=15 September 2009|url=http://www.xcmag.com/2009/09/web-exclusive-british-champion-interview/|access-date=10 December 2017}} 8 : Living people|English zoologists|Biomechanics|Bioengineers|People educated at Abingdon School|Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford|Place of birth missing (living people)|1963 births |
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