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Do we find these tubercles on birds or other similar animals that move through the air?
Insects get pretty gnarly. But different animals may have no way to express the feature. A dragonfly's exoskeleton is malleable, but the flat wing structure may not be. Birds have feathers on their wing's leading edge that are active aero.
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I assume there are similarities in aero dynamics and fluid dynamics, (I’m not smart enough to state this as fact) but are they the same? Do the findings of one directly apply to the other?
It's all one thing. The only difference is the Reynolds (no apostrophe) Number. A gnat swims in air like a fish does in water.
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