Aerodynamics and Design for Ultra-Low Reynolds Number Flight

Acknowledgments
This work was partially sponsored by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, a
unique program providing support for research that for one reason or another may sit
outside the sphere of interest of mainstream funding resources. My tenure at Stanford
was also supported by the Hugh H. Skilling Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Science
and Engineering. This fellowship was made possible by the generosity of Mr. Frank
Lynch. To both Stanford University and Mr. Lynch, I am eternally grateful.
I would like to thank my advisor and mentor at Stanford, Professor Ilan Kroo. His
technical insight has been invaluable and the flexibility and enthusiasm with which he
approaches graduate research and your students has wrought a wonderful environment in
which to grow, professionally and personally. I would also like to thank another mentor,
Professor Mark Maughmer. For almost 15 years he has been a teacher, a colleague, and
most importantly a friend. The vigor with which I approach my work and life is in no
small part inspired by him.
Finally and most importantly I’d like to thank my family, my father for giving me a goal,
my mother for showing me how to achieve it, my brother for teaching me how to do it
with honour and class, and my sister for helping me keep it all in perspective.
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