What mechanisms of flow control do animals use to enhance hydrodynamic performance?
Animals are capable of manipulating flow around the body and appendages both passively …

Publisher Summary The chapter focuses on recent experimental hydrodynamic data on
undulatory locomotion in fishes, and provides a general description of the major theoretical …

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a promising enabling technology for a wide range
of emerging applications, including robotics, artificial muscles, and microfluidics. This is due …

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The hydrodynamics of anguilliform swimming motions was investigated using three-
dimensional simulations of the fluid flow past a self-propelled body. The motion of the body …

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 …

We carry out fluid–structure interaction simulations of self-propelled virtual swimmers to
investigate the effects of body shape (form) and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of …

We establish through numerical simulation conditions for optimal undulatory propulsion for a
single fish, and for a pair of hydrodynamically interacting fish, accounting for linear and …

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 …