Fluid–structure interaction is ubiquitous in nature and occurs at all biological scales.
Immersed methods provide mathematical and computational frameworks for modeling fluid …

Discovery of fundamental principles which govern and limit effective locomotion (self-
propulsion) is of intellectual interest and practical importance. Human technology has …

Tuna and related scombrid fishes are high-performance swimmers that often operate at high
frequencies, especially during behaviors such as escaping from predators or catching prey …

Tunas are flexible, high-performance open ocean swimmers that operate at high
frequencies to achieve high swimming speeds. Most fish-like robotic systems operate at low …

Inertial aquatic swimmers that use undulatory gaits range in length L from a few millimetres
to 30 metres, across a wide array of biological taxa. Using elementary hydrodynamic …

In this article, we propose a new dynamic model of Cosserat beams in view of its application
to continuum and soft robotics manipulation and locomotion. In contrast to usual …

Bionic amphibious robots are receiving attention and significant interest from the civil and
military sectors since they can move on land and swim underwater. When developing a …

This article explores the relationship between optimal control and Cosserat beam theory
from the perspective of solving the forward and inverse dynamics (and statics as a subcase) …

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 …

Many problems of interest in biological fluid mechanics involve interactions between fluids
and solids that require the coupled solution of momentum equations for both the fluid and …