Metachronal motion is used across a wide range of organisms for a diverse set of functions.
However, despite its ubiquity, analysis of this behavior has been difficult to generalize …

Muscles act through elastic and dissipative elements to mediate movement, which can
introduce dissipation and filtering which are important for energetics and control. The high …

Metachronal rowing is a biological propulsion mechanism employed by many swimming
invertebrates (eg copepods, ctenophores, krill and shrimp). Animals that swim using this …

Metachronal propulsion is commonly seen in organisms with the caridoid facies body plan,
that is, shrimp-like organisms, as they beat their pleopods in an adlocomotory sequence …

As a strategy for creating fluid flow, metachronal motion is widespread across sizes and
species, including a broad array of morphologies, length scales, and coordination patterns …

A remarkable variety of organisms use metachronal coordination (ie numerous neighboring
appendages beating sequentially with a fixed phase lag) to swim or pump fluid. This …

Aquatic organisms often employ maneuverable and agile swimming behavior to escape
from predators, find prey, or navigate through complex environments. Many of these …

Many organisms use flexible appendages for locomotion, feeding, and other functional
behaviors. The efficacy of these behaviors is determined in large part by the fluid dynamics …

Metachronal motion is a unique swimming strategy widely adopted by many small animals
on the scale of microns up to several centimeters (eg, ctenophores, copepods, krill, and …

Open-channel flumes are an important tool in fluid mechanics research and education.
However, the few commercially available small-scale flumes are generally expensive and …