Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) problems commonly encountered in engineering and
biological applications involve geometrically complex flexible or rigid bodies undergoing …

Research on fish locomotion has expanded greatly in recent years as new approaches have
been brought to bear on a classical field of study. Detailed analyses of patterns of body and …

The immersed boundary method is a methodology for dealing with boundary conditions at
fluid–fluid and fluid–solid interfaces. The immersed boundary method has been attracting …

Numerical simulations are used to investigate the hydrodynamic benefits of body–fin and fin–
fin interactions in a fish model in carangiform swimming. The geometry and kinematics of the …

Recent studies have shown that by utilizing the interactions among median fins (the dorsal,
anal, and caudal fins), fishes can achieve higher propulsion performance at the caudal fin …

Animal movements result from a complex balance of many different forces. Muscles produce
force to move the body; the body has inertial, elastic, and damping properties that may aid or …

The human nose serves vital physiological functions, including warming, filtration,
humidification, and olfaction. These functions are based on transport phenomena that …

We designed a robotic fish caudal fin with six individually moveable fin rays based on the tail
of the bluegill sunfish, Lepomis macrochirus. Previous fish robotic tail designs have loosely …

We present a vortex particle method coupled with a penalization technique to simulate
single and multiple swimmers in an incompressible, viscous flow in two and three …

The effects of chordwise deformation and the half-amplitude asymmetry on the
hydrodynamic performance and vortex dynamics of batoid fish have been numerically …