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 …

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 …

Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable
their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of …

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 …

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

We employ numerical simulation to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of
anguilliform locomotion and compare it with that of carangiform swimming as the Reynolds …

The fins of fishes are remarkable propulsive devices that appear at the origin of fishes about
500 million years ago and have been a key feature of fish evolutionary diversification. Most …

Over the past 20 years, experimental analyses of the biomechanics of locomotion in fishes
have generated a number of key findings that are relevant to the construction of biomimetic …

An undulatory pattern of body bending in which waves pass along the body from head to tail
is a major mechanism of creating thrust in many fish species during steady locomotion …

Understanding the connection between physiology and kinematics of natural swimmers is of
great importance to design efficient bio-inspired underwater vehicles. This study looks at …