Self-propelled anguilliform swimming: Simultaneous solution of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and Newton's laws of motion

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3143-3166

  Carling, John ^a   Williams, Thelma L ^a   Bowtell, Graham ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anguilliform swimming; Body dynamics; Body kinematics; Computational fluid dynamics; Fluid body interactions; Hydrodynamics; Transformation methods; Two dimensional Navier Stokes equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032446507     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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